The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #121421   Message #2651452
Posted By: wysiwyg
08-Jun-09 - 01:32 PM
Thread Name: Looking for a bowed psaltery
Subject: RE: Looking for a bowed psaltery
Oh, that part is easy. Get thee to a jam-- any kind, anywhere-- and ask each of the people there if they'd be willing to let you try their instrument. In a break, quietly, just to see if your hand can deal with it. Concerts, music stores, same thing. Anytime you are near an instrument, ask that question if you possibly can. No matter how "pro" the player holding it. Because there IS an instrument out there that is meant to be YOURS, and the sooner you find it, the better. Attics are littered with the "great idea" instruments that never became anyone's "my" instrument. Sad, really, not to mention the expense! :~)

THEN you can see which type of music (and which type of playing within it) will inspire you to dig in deep. THEN the music will be inspiring what the hand-impairment now seems to be limiting.

~S~