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Thread #109140 Message #2278110
Posted By: MudGuard
03-Mar-08 - 07:36 AM
Thread Name: Identify instrument please? (Stossel Lute)
Subject: RE: Identify instrument please?
The wide distance between the 7 (missing) strings, which seem to be the ones for playing the melody) suggests that these are played with some sort of hammer - they are too far-spread for finger-picking. The other strings (which are still there) seem to have a "drone" function (as the drones in a bagpipe, their swing is inducted (?) by the main strings.
So in my opinion it is something between a zither and a hammered dulcimer.