Hi All,

Thanks for the ideas. I'll keep monitoring for others. I guess I have my work cut out for me.

Liz, thank you for the pun. I love 'em. Do you think a pun challenge thread would be fun, and more importantly, acceptable? We could do a regular feature like the song challenges. Rate them in numbers of groans.

Description of a bowed psaltery (feel free, guys, to correct mistakes) - viewed from the top it looks like a triangle about 18 inches long by five inches at the base. It is strung from the tuning pegs in the base straight up to the pegs that line the sides. Each peg represents an individual note. Naturals run up the right side, sharps and flats run up the left. Mine is a two octave instrument G to G. The bow is about a foot long and runs between each peg to sound a single note. The strings are flat across the instrument so you have to sound the notes one at a time.