"dulcimore" - I really like that way of spelling it. You know, that could be a way of getting away from the confusion of "dulcimer" meaning two completely different instruments, the Appalachian variety and they hammered variety.

The hammered ones are such heavy creatures to lift that the term "dulcimore" would really suit them. And it's a pretty word for all that, which fits them as well.

(Incidentally my spell checker didn't recognise either "dulcimore" or "dulcimer" - suggested I really means "parsimony"...It gets like that sometimes. I tell it to lie down in the dark and rest. I once worked for a man called Leadbetter, and when I typed in his name one day it suggested I really meant Wildebeest. That was a different spellchecker - but they are all pretty weird at times.)