what instrument is this?? help!

[LuIzA]

for the longest time I've been trying to find out what this instrument is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQHp6IUN8P8&feature=fvst

it plays at: 1:06 , 1:16 , 2:29 , 2:39

anyone know?

[Kanthos]

Do you have any other examples of it, where it's clearer? If it's the sound I think, it might be some kind of keyboard instrument, but I'd want to hear it more clearly and for longer than 4 short chords in the entire song to narrow it down.

[Moseph]

Do you have any other examples of it, where it's clearer? If it's the sound I think, it might be some kind of keyboard instrument, but I'd want to hear it more clearly and for longer than 4 short chords in the entire song to narrow it down.

It's a lot clearer in the 480p version if you haven't tried that.

[SonicThHedgog]

seems like a pad synth with some cymbles but on a sampler with lfo's

[Tensei]

Dulcimer? Mandoline? Some kind of percussive instrument? It beats the hell out of me.

[Nase]

the bowed nasal sounding chords? could be a classic mellotron string sound.

[zircon]

Sounds to me like a bouzouki or some other East European plucked/strummed instrument played tremolo. It could be any one of a number of zithers from the region and it would be impossible to tell.

[Nase]

guess i'm missing something? i don't hear anything that sounds like a tremolo.

i'm hearing a few plucked notes that don't sound like they're coming from a guitar, but they might as well be one with fx on top...

[LuIzA]

It definetely sounds like a stringed instrument, but don't think it has any fx on it, at least the production doesnt suggest it.

I initially thought it was a dulcimer, but i don't know if it can be played that way.

I don't think it's a bouzouki or something like that played tremolo, because the sound decays fast.

EDIT: looking at some youtube videos, I really think it's a hammered dulcimer.