So many names for ONE instrument!

[Dick Glasgow]

To some it is just the Mountain Dulcimer, but the fact is this instrument has many different names!

First there are the names for the instrument intself:

Appalachian Dulcimer
Hourglass Dulcimer
American Dulcimer
Mountain Dulcimer
Teardrop Dulcimer
Plucked Dulcimer
Fretted Dulcimer
Duck Slammer
Lap Dulcimer
Hog Fiddle
Dulcimore
Dulcimer
Swinette
Scantlin'

Then there are all the other Dulcimerry type instruments that the good old Shietholt has spawned along the way.
I'm thinking here of things like the:

Tennessee Music Box
Courting Dulcimer
Upright Dulcimer
Electric Dulcimer
Bowed Dulcimer
Boxed Dulcimer
Travel Dulcimer
Galax Dulcimer
Stick Dulcimer
Dulcinator
Banjamer
Banjo-Mo
Banjimer
Dulcibro
Dulcitar
Dulbro
Dulcijo

Did I leave any out?

Cheers
Dick

[kendra]

Just wanted to add one other name

My family, and the people in the little pocket of Appalachia where we live called the instrument a dulcerine. (Pronounced dull-sir-een)

Kendra Ward