In the Middle Ages there was an instrument called the psaltery, apparently some sort of a four-sided harp strung with metal strings. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference
There is no indication of 'psaltery' having accompanied the recitation of canonical gāthās. From Wordnik.com. [Psalms of the Sisters] Reference
"Wake, sackbut, psaltery, and harp -- wake yet again!". From Wordnik.com. [Poems of the Heart and Home] Reference
Upon an instrument of ten strings, upon the psaltery: with. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
Of sackbut, psaltery, and harp, ye bend in homage -- well. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of the Heart and Home] Reference
Harp and psaltery, harp and psaltery make drunk my spirit. From Wordnik.com. [American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany] Reference
Arise, O my glory, arise psaltery and harp: I will arise early. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
You can almost hear the strains of a psaltery in the background. From Wordnik.com. [Russ Wellen: New Phone 'Apps' Make it Easier for Pols to Stray] Reference
I've anchored that damned stick to the psaltery with a shoestring. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
Obededom: and Jehiel over the instruments of psaltery, and harps: and. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 13: 1 Paralipomenon The Challoner Revision] Reference
Praise him with the sound of trumpet: praise him with psaltery and harp. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
Adela thought it was a wonderful idea for Madelyne to play the psaltery. From Wordnik.com. [Honor’s Splendour] Reference
Open the chest there, beside the psaltery you will find a small leather bag. From Wordnik.com. [The Holy Thief]
Arise, my glory; arise, psaltery and harp: I will arise in the morning early. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on the psaltery. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
Madelyne turned to Duncan, caught his nod, and then began to play the psaltery. From Wordnik.com. [Honor’s Splendour] Reference
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery with the harp. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. From Wordnik.com. [Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants] Reference
Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. From Wordnik.com. [Psalms 150.] Reference
Upon an instrument of ten strings, upon the psaltery: with a canticle upon the harp. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
The flute and the psaltery make a sweet melody, but a pleasant tongue is above them both. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
Let them praise his name in choir: let them sing to him with the timbrel and the psaltery. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
Wasn't it precisely like him to pick out that damned psaltery there with the crooked stick?. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
We got a bowed psaltery five years ago because we already had the plucked and hammered kind. From Wordnik.com. [The Outstretched Shadow] Reference
Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings. From Wordnik.com. [Psalms 33.] Reference
Jim Doble who made the glass bowed psaltery: www. tidewater.net/~xlyojim Accessed Dec. 19, 2009. From Wordnik.com. [Celestial Music of the Spheres: Dean Shostak Plays Glass Instruments] Reference
About the year 1200 we arrive at the Dulcimer, which was an immense psaltery, with improvements. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.] Reference
That brought her a brief, preoccupied smile, but his attention went back at once to the psaltery. From Wordnik.com. [The Holy Thief]
Give praise to the Lord on the harp; sing to him with the psaltery, the instrument of ten strings. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
Besides, he had a bow in his other hand, and the only instrument Kellen knew that used a bow was a psaltery. From Wordnik.com. [The Outstretched Shadow] Reference
You that sing to the sound of the psaltery: they have thought themselves to have instruments of music like David. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
With his glance upon the psaltery stick, a dim notion of accounting filtered curiously into his mind and became obsessional. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
The forms of the psaltery were four-sided or triangular. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference
Salter is sometimes for sautrier, a player on the psaltery. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
This, under the name of psaltery, begins to figure in manuscript as early as the ninth century. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference
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