Why is the dulcimer a plucked instrument rather than a percussion instrument?

Dulcimer is a stringed instrument, not a plucked instrument. Dulcimer needs to strike the strings to make sound, not pluck them. Percussion instrument is an instrument that produces effects by knocking, shaking, rubbing and scraping. Percussion is mainly used to produce rhythm, so dulcimer does not conform to this feature.

Related introduction:

String instrument is a kind of stringed instrument, which is an instrument that vibrates with hands or objects to produce sound. ? Zhu, dulcimer, piano, Kleivik and Yi are all stringed instruments.

Dulcimer is a stringed instrument commonly used in China. It belongs to the same family as the piano, with distinctive timbre characteristics, loud volume and a combination of rigidity and softness.

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Related background:

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, various forms of folk instrumental music appeared as independent music, and dulcimer became one of the main instruments of Cantonese opera, Jiangnan Sizhu and Shandong Qinqu. Dulcimer has been circulated and evolved in China for nearly 400 years. No matter in musical instrument making, performing arts or music creation, it has the traditional characteristics and national style of China, and combined with local folk music, it has formed a number of schools with outstanding local and musical characteristics.

Musical instrument manufacturers in China have developed many new kinds of dulcimers, such as high and low dulcimers, tuned dulcimers, Zheng dulcimers and electro-acoustic dulcimers. What is particularly worth mentioning is the electro-acoustic dulcimer, which consists of a piano body, a pickup, an amplifier and a sound box. When the strings vibrate, the sound waves are converted into electrical signals through the pickup, which are beautified by the amplifier and then emitted by the speaker.

When playing, the piano is placed on the frame, and the left and right hands each hold a piano and a bamboo, and the strings on both sides of the bar code are tapped respectively. Bamboo method (that is, playing skills) includes monophonic, left and right dial, diphone (chord), wheel tone (dense bamboo), anti-bamboo, contrast, pause, arpeggio, plucked string, up and down slide, overtone and so on.

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