cimbalom

plural cimbaloms · alternative cymbalom · alternative cymbalum · alternative kymbalon · alternative tymbalon · alternative zimbalon · alternative zimbaloon

1. A type of concert hammered dulcimer used primarily in the music of Central and Eastern Europe.

   Either/Or, including Anthony Burr, clarinetist; Jane Rigler, flutist; and Richard Carrick and David Shively, percussionists, also employed the cimbalom, the Hungarian pianolike mutant whose twang remains familiar to boozy evenings in late-night Central European bars.

   2007 September 17, Bernard Holland, “Cryptic Messages or Silence From the ’60s Avant-Garde”, in New York Times