Pim Zond with Psalterion
Avant-garde musician Pim Zond playing a psaltery
A psaltery is a stringed instrument of the zither family.
The psaltery of Ancient Greece (epigonion) was a harp-like instrument.
The word psaltery derives from the Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltērion), "stringed instrument, psaltery, harp"and that from the verb ψάλλω (psallō), "to touch sharply, to pluck, pull, twitch" and in the case of the strings of musical instruments, "to play a stringed instrument with the fingers, and not with the plectrum."
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