CHAPTER 7: Controversies and misconceptions

Introduction

1. Living Traditions in the British Isles and Elsewhere

2. Pantaleon

3. Soundholes in planks

4. The dulcimer in 'serious' music

5. The dulcimer's popularity in the Netherlands

6. Distribution - "all continents"

7. Distribution - "most countries"

8. 'Living traditions' in the Canaries, Norway, Sweden

9. "Cimbal" in Appenzell

10. Generalisations about stringings

11. Connections with the Pantaleon in France

12. Post-1750 changes

13. Translating names

14. "Struck in the north, plucked in the south"

15. "Salterio tedesco"

16. A mediaeval dulcimer"

17. Dispersion

 

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