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Thread #32166   Message #426511
Posted By: GUEST,leeneia
27-Mar-01 - 10:16 AM
Thread Name: Plucked and bowed psalteries
Subject: RE: Plucked and bowed psalteries
A plucked psaltery may be fine, but have you ever heard a bowed psaltery? If so, why do you want one? I have heard them from two sources, and the main effect of a bowed psaltery is to loosen your fillings.

Both sources, (Cooper & Nelson and a recording from Iceland) make their pieces mercifully short, so it's obvious that I am not alone in this reaction.