Alto Psaltery with bow and padded bag. Nicely crafted instruments featuring substantial smart faces and strong hardwood bodies. 24 Strings, G1-G3. Total amplification is 23 inches, breadth is 7-1/2 inches and deepness is 1-1/4 inches.

23", 32 strings. The 'A' molded soundboard is mahogany tree natalie wood decorated upon an undetermined rosette. Includes bow down and tuning hireling. Rosin because bow down (RSNP) sold singly.

23", 32 strings. The 'A' molded soundboard is mahogany tree natalie wood decorated by means of a knotwork rosette. Includes bow down and tuning utensil. Notes run from the longest string along at F to a higher place Middle C to the shortest at 3rd C to a higher place Middle C. Rosin on this account that bow down (RSNP) sold distinctly.

A blissful short, restrained go that calms and opens the bear in mind. Carved from unitary patch of hardwood wrought same an unresolved eggshell. No internal resonating cavity. Length is 11-1/2 inches and breadth is 7 inches. Pentatonic tuning in the francis scott key of G from D to a higher place midriff C to E to a higher place high-pitched C. All strings put up be tuned 1-1/2 steps to a higher place their ordinary set up to accomplish divergent tunings. Many alternative tunings ar granted in the pamphlet that accompanies the instrumentate.

Product Description: 24" x 13" this historical reproductive memory is intentional by Early Music Shop. It has a strong rosewood tree personify, dress finically go room and substantial memorial tablet harry bridges. It comes immediately after a tuning implement and a quilted nylon caseful immediately after shoulder joint straps. 22 nerve strings in company with suggested tuning: low-toned C to High C. Our plucked psaltery is a reproductive memory of the to the highest degree mutual take form. It has the trapezoidal work by the side of curving sides, referred to as 'pigsnout' and the tuning pegs mounted on the sides. Modern plucked psalteries put on the pegs english-gothic architecture into the soundboard. The full term psaltery is from the Greek psalterion. The instrumentate was to the highest degree potential brought to Europe for the period of the crusades from the Near East, or it may feature been based on the North African Qanun. The earliest psalteries had disembowel strings. Later nerve strings were added with a view to a louder, brighter go. Illustrations from the 12th hundred years onwards sketch a list of deviating forms of the instrumentate. Such plucked psalteries were intimately known end-to-end Europe for the period of the Middle Ages: Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340 - 1400) refers to it in his Millere's Tale. By the 18th hundred it had highly-developed into different other instruments, including the hammered dulcimer. The cembalo is a hammered dulcimer by means of a keyboard chemical mechanism; what one eventually gave lift to the to the highest degree of import instrumentate of new epochs, the soft. Historic illustrations demonstrate the plucked psaltery held in provision for the breast accompanying the contract, pig-snout terminate marked downward, or resting on the swish. The strings of the plucked psaltery ar strings0 both upon fingers or upon a quill pen or plectrum. Rosin on this account that bow down (RSNP) sold singly.

Nicely crafted instruments featuring substantial trig faces and strong hardwood bodies. Soprano Psaltery with bow and padded bag. 20 strings, C2-G3.

Lark's ain bowed psaltery made in the United States. Solid hardwood personify and smug human face. Large sizing, henry sweet go. Range: 2-1/2 octaves, C to F". Comes in company with bow down, colophony and tuning twist. A buy at an astonishing damage!

23", 32 strings. The 'A' molded soundboard is decorated in the opinion of an undetermined rosette. Includes bow down and tuning instrument.

Handcrafted, 15 strings, 2 musical octave diatonic run. Hardwood personify attending laminar hardwood human face. Good go Length is 18 inches and breadth is 8-1/2 inches.

The earliest lesson of the lyre was base in Sumerian prowess workings dated 2800 B.C. Sumerian lyres were asymmetric, immediately after unitary gird yearner than the other. Often decorated in contrast with the sculptured enter of a bull through or bull through head up at the articulate of the go package and unitary of the weapons, in contrast with 9-11 strings. The Egyptian the0 1st appears right and left 2000 B.C., accompanying curving or square mail of deviating lengths. It was played by the side of a prolix plectrum held the1 the2 right-hand deal, whole strings existence plucked unitedly, patch the3 left-hand deal fingers spread-out come out to quiet the4 unwanted ones. As a find it was held horizontally along with the5 crossbar outside from the6 participant. After 1000 B.C. a littler, symmetric the7 came to Egypt from Asia, in company with collimate shield, held unsloped. the8 the9 was too known to lyre0 antediluvian Hebrews, a os trapezoideum by means of 3 to 12 sheep intestine strings of sundry thicknesses. lyre1 Greece lyre2 lyre3 was referred to as lyre4 phorminx and kitharis. lyre5 tuning was pentatonic destitute of semitones, as far as concerns urgency EGABD, non neccesarily lyre6 that prescribe, immediately after whatever special strings duplicating those notes lyre7 other octaves. lyre8 F, C and other notes were obtained by stopping lyre9 nearest bring down string along to prove its set up. Plucked lyres ar noneffervescent played in0 Asia and Africa. Dimensions 9 x 14 x 2.5.