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Appalachian Mountains

Name: Appalachian Mountains
Address: CA

35.7647°N -82.2653°W · Q93332

One English word in this atlas traces back to Appalachian Mountains. It sits in Canada.

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Appalachian dulcimernoun · 20th century

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It is not a dulcimer: real dulcimers are struck, and this one is plucked.

Settlers in the southern mountains built the instrument in the early 1800s from older European fretted zithers, and folk revivalists attached the regional name to it in the 20th century. Calling it a dulcimer is a misfit borrowed from the hammered instrument it does not resemble in play.

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