G'day Terry and Wilfried,

Thanks for the responses. Judging by the dating Terry has (1927 in Bavaria) there is a generation, or so, more antiquity that I suspected ... and Wilfried's connection of it with the German youth movement (presumably already existing ... and of respectable aims ... before Hitler starting reshaping all things to his own ends) seems ti fit in well.

I remember seeing a couple of ladies involved with the early Bush Music Club (1950s, here in Australia) who played such 'folklauts'. Both had broadly 'Germanic' or northern European names ... and, presumably, family backgrounds) so they may well have been playing what was a popular instrument in their parents' youth.

Regards,

Bob Bolton