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Bowed Psaltery Tour - Historical Origins

Read more about this Bowed Psaltery, historical origins of the Bowed Psaltery, and I will be happy to answer any Bowed Psaltery questions here in this video's comments area. This particular Bowed Psaltery was custom made for me by Dave Lucas, "Dave's Psalteries". Dave retired but built around 9,000 Bowed Psalteries so his instruments do show up for sale used. This one has 34 strings: 20 "white key" side, 13 "black key" - sharps and flats side, lowest note G below C below middle C, 2 Octaves of C on up two more notes to E. The sound box is 1&6/8 inches deep - 27 &1/2 inches long down the center - the rails are 28 inches long and across the base of the triangle is 9 inches. The Nut/Bridge is 7 &1/4 inches long 3/8th of an inch at base and 6/8th of an inch tall. Longest String (G) is 24 inches - Shortest (E) is 5 &1/8 inches. String gauges: The lowest one to three .013 gauge next 3 or 4 notes .012 , some .011s and then .010 gauge from F on up to high E. Bowed Psaltery Origins Gaining in popularity around the world (I'd like to think I had something to do with that) Our modern steel metal strung chromatically arraigned Bowed Psaltery is based on historical instruments the most ancient of stringed instrument consisted of just one string and is called a Monochord. Tuned to a note and then plucked, beat, or bowed upon there are still important examples of Monochords played in different cultures such as the Vietnamese Ban Dau. The Monochords developed pretty quickly into different forms of Harps, Lyres, and Psalteries with older specimens being found by archeologists all the time. The Greek Cycladic period (2700 -2500 A. D.) "Harp Player" statuary found as grave offerings through out the Mediterranean. Egyptian, Summerian, and Assyrian Harp and Lyre iconography show continuous use over long periods of tim. The Psaltery or Box Harp design with the strings running parallel with the sound board lent itself to many adaptations - Kanteles, Santours, Salterios (Hammer Dulcimers, also plucked) and as time went by became Pianos, Harpsichords, etc. Now a days called Fretless Zithers the Autoharps, Scandinavian Harpeleikas, Chord Zithers and Tambourin or String Drums all fit into the "Psaltery" group. The Violin-Zither is an older much larger brother of our Bowed Psaltery, it has a set of strings bowed on one at a time as we do but also groups of strings arraigned in chords meant to be strummed by the left hand to accompany the bowed melody strings. The most elaborate Violin-Zither, the "Fischer Fidola" also had springy hammers like the American "Marxophone". These even more elaborate instruments must have developed from a version that was just enough strings to bow a diatonic scale somewhere in Europe, but where? Germany? There was no "Germany" before 1848. There were the independent Kingdoms, Bishoprics, Cities, Leagues, Great Estates and Families. There was Prussia, Saxony, Franconia, Bavaria, all together over 210 autonomic areas not to mention Austria and pockets of German peoples in Poland, Bohemia, Luxembourg, and Northern Italy. A 1925 German Patent issued to the Clemen's Neuber Company for, as he states in his patent application, certain design "Improvements" for a Violin-Zither, no where claims invention of the Violin-Zither itself with the Hopf Musical Instrument Company and others also manufacturing Violin-Zithers at that time period. Starting in the early 1900's many different companies in New Jersey, Brooklyn, and later New Troy, Michigan made a variety of "easy to play" instruments. "Parlor Music" was a popular form of entertainment and starting in the 1800's a Mandolin Orchestra and Zither craze swept America and petered out just before Edison invented recording equipment. Door to Door salesman sold "Ukelins" and "Pianolins", set up like Violin-Zither to have some strings meant to be bowed one at a time and others intended to be strummed to accompany. Starting in the 1930's and still working in the 1960's back in Germay Edgar Stahmer was a music education teacher who used different sizes of our modern chromatic Bowed Psaltery as an important part of his system. At the end of WWII George Kelichek immigrated to the United States and started a Lutherie business in Brasstown North Carolina making many musical instruments including a lot of very small Bowed Psalteries designed by his friend Walter Mittman to be easier for children to hold and play. In the earliest editions of his instructional booklet to go with it Kelichek said his friend Walter Mittman "invented" the Bowed Psaltery, in later editions this was changed, however some sources swallowed that whole and to this day I run across people that want to tell me "oh that thing wasn't invented until 1950".