The amulet of the scarab has been found in Egypt in untold thousands, and the varieties are exceedingly numerous. They are made of green basalt, green granite, limestone, green marble, blue paste, blue glass, purple, blue and green glazed porcelain, etc.; and the words of power are usually cut in outline on the base.
Dulcimer, stringed musical instrument, a version of the psaltery in which the strings are beaten with small hammers rather than plucked.
A third instrument was also a forerunner to the piano, yet had no keyboard â that is the dulcimer. dulcimer is a stringed instrument, struck with small padded hammers held in the playerâs hands. himself. His dulcimer was four times the normal size â nine feet long, with an extra soundboard.