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	Psaltery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A psaltery is a stringed musical instrument of the harp or the zither family.
		Psaltery of the 14th century from the book De Arythmetica, De Musica by M.
		In the Christian era a psaltery consisting of a soundboard with several pre-tuned strings that are usually plucked, came into use.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Psaltery (229 words)

	Psaltery (psalterion, saltere, sauterie, Psalterium, Psalter, salterio) for Sale
		The name of psaltery entered Christian literature in the 3rd century B.C. translation of the Old Testament called the Septuagint where, in the Psalms, "nebel" was translated "psalterion".
		Northern psalteries tended to be triangular or wing-shaped and single or double-strung.
		The strings of the plucked psaltery are plucked, either with fingers or with a quill or plectrum.
	www.musicoutfitters.com /ethnic/psaltery.htm (685 words)

	PSALTERY - LoveToKnow Article on PSALTERY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The medieviil psaltery consisted of a shallow box-soundchest over which strings varying in number were stretched, being fastened at one side to pegs and at the other to wrest pins.
		In the early rectangular form the strings, numbering 10 or 12, were, as in the cithara, of uniform length, the pitch being varied by the thickness and tension of the strings.
		The psaltery was held in an upright position against the chest of the performer, until, owing to the increasing number of strings, it grew too cumbersome, and was placed flat on a table or on the knee.
	19.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PS/PSALTERY.htm (437 words)

	Instrument Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A psaltery is a member of the zither family; its body consists of almost entirely of a wooden sound board or resonating box.
		To play the European psaltery, you hold the body of the instrument against your chest, which acts as a resonator to amplify the sound.
		From bone pipe and cattle horn to fiddle and psaltery.
	www.si.umich.edu /chico/instrument/pages/psaltery_gnrl.html (308 words)

	Instrument World: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The bowed psaltery is held with the short side against the chest, and bowed in between the pins along the longer sides.
		psaltery n: an ancient stringed instrument similar to the lyre or zither but having a trapezoidal sounding board under the strings.
		The word psaltery is used in the bible, but this was most likely referring to a type of harp instrument and it seems that the box zither was not known as a psaltery until sometime during the 3rd century.
	www.instrumentworld.info /info.php?id=bowed_psaltery (266 words)

	Canadian Luthier about the Psaltery
		The Psaltery is a musical instrument that is basically a closed wooden box with a series of metallic or gut strings that form a scale.
		The earliest reference to the psaltery is attributed to King David (1000) B.C. Known references to the existence of psalteries are found in Persia, Ancient Greece, Spain, Italy, France, and Ireland.
		The contemporary bowed Psaltery is in the shape of an isosceles triangle with hitch pins on both sides and tuned to the chromatic scale (like a piano with both natural notes and sharps and flats.) The contemporary bowed psaltery may have been developed in the late 1940’s in Germany.
	www.canadianluthier.ca /about.html (514 words)

	Psaltery World Musical Instruments An ancestor of the modern European zither is the psaltery, a development of the ...
		Psaltery World Musical Instruments An ancestor of the modern European zither is the psaltery, a development of the Turkish qanun that reached Europe in the 11th century.
		The psaltery is played with a bow or sometimes plucked with the fingers, either resting on the lap or leaning against the chest.
		An ancestor of the modern European zither is the psaltery, a development of the Turkish qanun that reached Europe in the 11th century.
	www.worldmusicalinstruments.com /MusicalInstrumentList.asp?CategoryID=84 (187 words)

	Psaltery
		The psaltery is in the family of chordophones.
		The psaltery was developed in the Middle East, and was a very important instrument during the Medieval Period.
		Our psaltery is shaped like an isosceles triangle, or a tall letter "A." There is one rosette carved in the mahogany plywood soundboard.
	www.mid-east.com /Info/psaltery.html (410 words)

	Psaltery - sacred anceint Hebrew stringed instruments with Psaltery bow and case.
		Psalteries are found, in one form or another, in every major folk culture in the world dating back 1000's of years.
		The bowed psaltery probably dates back around 300 years ago in Ireland but it was a great deal different from the ones we have today.
		The comtemporary bowed psaltery is an isosceles triangle with hitch pins on both sides and tuned to the chromatic scale (the same as a piano, with both natural notes and sharps and flats).
	www.heritageethnicmusic.com /site/607029/page/273937 (307 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Bowed Psaltery is a member of the zither family of instruments.
		The psaltery he referred to was plucked or strummed, instead of bowed., and only had a few strings.
		History seems to tell us that the psaltery was reshaped and a bow or plectrum (a rosin coated stick) added during the Renaissance period.
	www.bowedpsaltery.com /History.aspx (311 words)

	Minstrels' Guild of Drachenwald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The psaltery is played by plucking the strings with the fingers or plectra (often quills were used).
		The dulcimer (picture on the left [4]) is a psaltery having strings that are struck with hammers rather than plucked.
		The psaltery gave rise to the harpsichord, which is a large psaltery with a keyboard mechanism for plucking the strings.
	minstrel.starstonedesign.com /prev/psalter.html (761 words)

	Harps by Wm. Rees - Renaissance Psaltery History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Psaltery music is shaped just like the psaltery but a bit smaller so that it will fit into the space under the strings.
		To play a psaltery, the music is put under the strings and a line at the top and bottom of the music is lined up with the top and bottom strings of the psaltery.
		The psaltery (I do not know what its Persian name is) is a member of the same family of instruments as the somewhat younger Persian santir.
	www.traditionalharps.com /ReesPsalteryHistory.html (597 words)

	handcrafted hand made musical instruments fretted hammered dulcimer plucked bowed psaltery
		The Cabin Creek Plucked Psaltery is one of a wide range of stringed instruments in the zither family.
		The Bowed Psaltery is an instrument which evolved from the Plucked Psaltery during the middle ages.
		The Bowed Psaltery is easily played by cradling it in the arm and drawing the small bow over one string playing the melody one note at a time.
	www.cabincreekmusic.com (758 words)

	Early Music - Plucked psaltery, a 3000 year old plucked instrument (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The plucked psaltery, usually made in the characteristic trapezoid shape shown above or in a slightly more elaborate version with curved sides (the "pigsnout" psaltery shown in the picture on the left) was hugely popular throughout Europe during the Middle Ages: Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340 - 1400) refers to it in his
		Each string on this type of psaltery is plucked either with the player's fingernails or with a plectrum.
		The strings on the earliest psalteries were made from gut, but later steel-stringed psalteries make a louder, brighter sound.
	www.earlymusic.i12.com /general/prod_11.htm (232 words)

	BalticShop.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Imformation about the psaltery can be found in Lithuanian folk songs, tales, legends often reaching the times when Lithuanians were pagans and believed that a man’s soul can dwell in a tree or in a psaltery and speak or sob in a man’s voice.
		The simple psaltery is also gouged from one piece of wood but it is larger, has more (from 9 to 12) strings, and, besides, it is made with greater artistry.
		The wider end of the psaltery is cut obliquely: the acute angle is from 17degrees to 70 degrees, the obtuse angle from 100 degrees to 150 degrees.
	www.balticshop.com /item.msql?item=10040&cat=0254title=Lithuanian_Traditional_Instruments (251 words)

	James Jones Bowed Psalteries
		Extremely easy to play, the psaltery's haunting, ethereal tone is used effectively with chordal instruments or in solo playing.
		The standard psaltery is fully chromatic, set up like a piano with the white notes to the right and the sharps and flats to the left.
		In a left handed instrument the white keys of the psaltery are on the left side of the instrument, fl keys on the right.
	www.jamesjonesinstruments.com /bowedpsaltery/bowedpsaltery.html (778 words)

	psaltery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This was a stringed instrument of music to accompany the voice.The Hebrew nabel or nebel is so rendered in the AuthorizedVersion in all passages where if occurs, except in (isaiah5:12; 14:11; 22:24), marg.; (amos 5:23; 6:6) where it istranslated viol.
		It is impossible to say positively with whatinstrument the nebel of the Hebrew exactly corresponded, Fromthe fact that nebel in Hebrew also signifies a wine-bottle orskin it has been conjectured that the term when applied to amusical instrument denotes a kind of bagpipe.
		The psalteries ofDavid were made of cypress, (2 samuel 6:5) those of Solomon ofalgum Or almug trees.
	psaltery.idoneos.com (352 words)

	Diabolus in Musica Guide to Early Instruments - The Psaltery and Dulcimer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The main difference is that on psalteries, the strings are plucked, either with the fingers, fingernails, or more commonly with a plectrum or quill.
		An early development was a central bridge, or a row of individual bridges for each string, dividing each string into two, and allowing one string to produce two notes.
		It is possible that some instruments were dual-purpose; pluck it and it's a psaltery, hammer it and it's a dulcimer.
	www.diabolus.org /guide/psaltery.htm (499 words)

	Harps by Wm. Rees - W. REES WHOLESALE PROGRAM PSALTERY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		With orders of 24 or more, you may select which music sets to include with the psaltery so that your store may offer a psaltery and music combination package which is specifically targeted at your customer base.
		Custom Psalteries are especially appropriate for vacation destination gift stores where your customers will be attracted not only by the psaltery itself but by the opportunity to take home a special keepsake from their trip.
		The standard set is included with each psaltery unless arrangements are made under the customization options.
	traditionalharps.com /ReesPsalteryWholesale.html (933 words)

	Bowed Psalteries
		The bowed psaltery is played by drawing the bow across strings that are between the pins on the right and left sides.
		The right side of a bowed psaltery is the key of "C" (i.e., like the white keys on a piano) and the left side contains sharps and flats (i.e.,like the fl keys of a piano).
		The psaltery is 1 3/4" high, 8" wide at the bottom, 22 1/2" long on the sides.
	www.songsea.com /bpsalt.htm (251 words)

	Meadows Music: Bowed Psaltery
		To quote the Grove's Dictionary of Musical Instruments, a psaltery is "an instrument of the zither family consisting of a raised wooden board, or a wooden box with soundholes, with strings stretched parallel to the soundboard and attached at either side by wooden pegs or metal pins.
		The term psaltery probably began to refer to box shaped zithers sometime in the third century.
		The present form of the bowed psaltery was developed in Germany as a teaching aid for young music students.
	www.meadows-music.com /bowed.htm (549 words)

	What Is A Bowed Psaltery and Playing A Bowed Psaltery
		By picking one or two songs and playing them over and over a number of times, you quickly learn those songs well enough to play for other people, you learn where all the notes are on the instrument and you master the bowing techniques.
		Instead of weeks or months to learn the basics of the instrument, spend a couple of hours with a bowed psaltery and you'll be well on your way to mastering the instrument.
		The bowed psaltery is indeed the ideal instrument for the musically challenged.
	unicornstrings.com /whatisit.htm (345 words)

	Psaltery Kits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		There are countless mediaeval illustrations of plucked psalteries, all with the same basic shape often referred to as 'pig snout' psalteries.
		The psaltery was developed in the near East and filtered into Europe during the crusades.
		The shape varies enormously and can be triangular, square or trapezoidal, but a bowed psaltery lends itself naturally to being triangular with the diatonic notes of the scale on the right hand and the semitones on the left.
	www.e-m-s.com /cat/kits/kits/plupsakt.htm (232 words)

	Bowed Psaltery
		The Bowed Psaltery is an easy to play instrument, even if you don’t know anything about music.
		The included instruction book explains holding and bowing the psaltery as well as how to use the numbers and even how to read music if you want to learn.
		Our 13 string psaltery is tuned to the key of "D" so that it can easily be played along with the Mountain Dulcimer in the key of "D".
	www.flat-creek.com /bowed_psaltery.htm (276 words)

	Civilization.ca - The making of musical instruments in Canada - Making instruments - Medieval
		he psaltery is a stringed instrument that enjoyed prominence during the Middle Ages.
		In paintings, the psaltery is usually shown resting against the musician's chest or occasionally on the knees.
		Around the thirteenth century, there appeared a psaltery called the instrumento di porco, so named because of its curved shape resembling a pig's snout.
	www.civilization.ca /arts/opus/opus213e.html (344 words)

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