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Thread #22816   Message #250006
Posted By: Lanfranc
30-Jun-00 - 05:47 PM
Thread Name: Songs for Bowed Psaltery?
Subject: RE: Songs for Bowed Psaltery?
If you can sing and simultaneously play a bowed psaltery, you're a better man than I am, Naemanson!

I use it to play an intro to "She's like the swallow" and "She moved through the fair", but pause playing while singing.

My party piece tunes on the psaltery are "Here's that rainy day" and "Misty", but I do play O'Carolan and the Tallis theme used by Vaughan Williams. The tune used by Thaxted Morris to accompany the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance also fits it well, especially if you can find someone to play triangle with you (Two triangles together!!) - Spooky in the right setting.