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  • noun Plural form of psaltery.

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Examples

  • Mr. Dolmetsch has made instruments which he calls psalteries, and Miss Farr has herself learnt and has taught others, to chant verse, in a manner between speaking and singing, to the accompaniment of the psaltery.

    Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory Arthur Symons 1905

  • Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the LORD.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Next, to their aural orifices, and the avenues audient of the brain, was borne a very melancholy sound as of harmoniums, hymns, organ-pianos, psalteries, and the like, all playing different airs, in a kind most hateful to the Muses.

    Letters to Dead Authors 2006

  • And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

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