This is another fascinating and beautiful presentation of music on an instrunment that I have never heard of. It's amazing how much variation there is in string instruments alone!!
I heard a note or two of a psaltery--no more--many long years ago, in "It's Cool in the Furnace" (for the scene where Nebuchadnezzar lays down the law: When you hear the music, bow down and worship this idol or be completely immolated).
Now "Greensleeves" on Bowed Psaltery has been viewed over 10,000 times by folks all around the world! Thank you all and UA-cam for helping me spread the word on what a great musical instrument the Bowed Psaltery is. HELLO! I'm Gregg Schneeman from the year 2023 time traveling back to my comment here to thank everyone who have been subscribed and listening to my channel all these years. My very early with poor sound quality Greensleeves here has now gotten over 300,000 Views, 4,505 Likes and 70 Dislikes. I since have made close to 1,000 Bowed Psaltery and Dulcimer videos. They all together have gotten 545,687 views, 12,124 likes, 130 dislikes, and have been watched for 10.5K hours! I hope I've encouraged a greater interest in playing the Bowed Psaltery. KEEP ON PSALTING!
Gregg E. Schneeman And thank you for unintentionally reminding me about the bowed psaltry I made a few years back. I stopped playing it... but I'm thinking of learning your arrangement. I wonder where that thing got to.
Hey! Greg. I just came upon your videos while viewing Rick's. Met and jammed with you and Jeanie in the West Pines at Evart. What spectacular playing! I am The fiddler that "maybe someday" the you mentioned in your prolog. My sister gave me a Bowed Psaltery kit to build. There is still enough winter left, here in the Mitten, to have it ready by spring. I know where y'all are on You Tube, now. Best to the Both of y'all. Tony The West Pines Troglodyte & Hammered Fiddle Player
“Guilliman could already hear it: a psaltery, a bass psaltery, peeling its long, sad, pure notes into the night air. The echo was pronounced. The hydroponics gallery was a large space, but Guilliman was sure it could not have produced quite that kind of echo. The sound seemed to come from the heart of the world, as if it was rising out of some tectonically riven abyss.” -Excerpt From The Unremembered Empire by Dan Abnett
This is not the instrument mention in the Psalms. That was an earlier instrument, a type of plucked psaltery. The bowed psaltery was invented in the 1920s.
@@jimsime1the bowed psaltery, in particular, WAS invented in the early 20th century. Instruments resembling the psaltery do date back that far, but not in this particular format.
This is the first bowed paltry I’ve seen since I bought mine at a craft fair in North Carolina about 35 years ago. While I am anything but proficient in it, mine has brought me great joy. The craftsman who made mine said these were frequently used in Germany after the war to teach music in schools, because they were easier to craft than the destroyed pianos they were replacing. (I have no idea how true this is.)
I believe you are referring to George Kelichek, who I had the pleasure to meet and play Bowed Psalteries with one time in the 1990's when he and his son came to Los Angeles.
I can’t even imagine playing with 2 bows running the opposite way. Wow. I am just not that coordinated! Very interesting sound. I have a few stringed instruments myself, but not proficient on any.
Nehemiah 12:27b To keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgiving, and with singing, with cymbals, PSALTERIES, and with harps. Psalm 150:3 Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet: praise Him with the PSALTERY and harp. Hallelujah, PRAISE THE LORD!!
My cat loves psaltery music, especially this video. She gets very affectionate and up close to whoever is nearby when it plays. Something about the psaltery turns a switch on in her, so thank you for posting.
BEAUTIFUL!!!!! I discovered this instrument this week while working as a caroler at Old Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, MA. The musician even let me play it after we told him I was a piano player & was very curious about it. We played a duet of "In the Bleak Midwinter" with him on dulcimer. I feel like I need to get one now!!!
Many people tell me they've never seen a psaltery before - but the psaltery group is described as "Fretless box harps with the strings running parallel to the sound box." Which modern day versions of include the Autoharp, the Piano/key board group, kanteles, kokles, and in many countries where the are plucked Salterios known here in America as Hammer Dulcimers. The word psaltery can also refer to high leaping dances. King David is accused by his wife Michal, daughter of Saul of having leaped lewdly before the Ark of the Covenant as it was brought to Jerusalem. Read Second Samuel chapter six.
I just got my first psaltery today via Facebook Marketplace and I am in love! Listening to this video I had tears in my eyes. I am going to learn this and hopefully play as well as you played this. Thank you !!
The Psaltery Family of musical instruments also called Box Harps or Fretless Zithers comes in many forms configured for the way they are intended to be played. Among the Psalteries that are played today are: Pianos, Autoharps, Kantleles, Persian Kanuns, and, in the countries where they are plucked, Hammer Dulcimers are called Salterios. The word Psaltery actually means to move about with hops, skips, and jumps, so there are high leaping dances called Salteros. A book is called a psalter as you are flipping pages as opposed to unrolling a scroll.
When I read Psalm 27 I always wondered what a psaltery was and how it sounded. When I saw the picture I never imagined such a beautiful sound could come from something looking like that. I'd love to learn how to play this instrument.
Psalteries are the ancient Box Harp or Fretless Zithers a highly adaptable family of musical instruments based on the Monochord, in our modern times represented by the Kantele, the Autoharp, the piano and others. Please visit my "Bowed Psaltery Tour" video where I'm putting more Bowed Psaltery in formation in the comment area.
I'm happy these still exist and are being played today. I was reading the Bible and the Sackbut and Psaltery was mentioned. I imagine this is what Heaven is going to sound like.
Wow, the resonance the bell tones is astonishing. I am familiar with bell tones from playing cello - they really sound like bells in the bowed psaltery. Just gorgeous!
Danke fürs Zuhören! Dieses Video war eines meiner ersten vor sieben Jahren - ich habe versucht, eine Weiterentwicklung der Stile von der einfachen Ein-Bogen-Spielweise bis hin zu einigen Zwei-Bogen-Spielmethoden zu zeigen. Bitte schauen Sie sich einige meiner widerrufeneren Videos an
Its now a year since I made this video, thank you folks for watching it over 6,000 times! All together I've made 100 videos here on UA-cam with more to come, please check them out as well.
My grandfather gave me his bowed psaltery when I was ten. Played it off and on for special occasions...but I’ve never found a place to play it often. I love it though. 😊 Thank you for sharing your talents.
Soon this video I made of "Greensleeves" will go over 1000 views! I want to thank everyone that has taken the time to watch it, I hope its been instructive. Thanks to those who "Liked" it and my other videos. More to come!
Biblically speaking the simplest version of the Kantele family of "Box Harps" the Latvian Kokle's playing technique probably is similar how shepherd boy David's instrument worked (though not metal strung) hear it played at ..ua-cam.com/video/Phb1Aho9FwA/v-deo.html As time went by more elaborate plucked or hammered psateries would have been available to King David, see..ua-cam.com/video/3mjEIQOVdnw/v-deo.html How far back bowed musical Instruments, using a rosined stick, horse hair bow, or rosined wheel like a Hurdy Gurdy go is a point of contention among musicologists. Please see my "Bowed Psaltery Tour" and History video.
Harps have their strings running up from a sound box to a usually non acoustic tone arm where the tuning pegs are. Psalteries, sometimes called fretless zithers, have their strings running parallel to the sound box. I have heard people say "I've never seen a Psaltery before!" but if you have seen a Piano, a Hammer Dulcimer, or an Autoharp you have seen a few of the configurations the Psaltery family of instruments. The triangular metal stringed chromatic Bowed Psaltery with nickel plated steel zither pins that I play is a more modern adaptation based on the 1850's German Violin - Zither, a much larger instrument with sets of strings arraigned in chords meant to be strummed to accompany the bowed strings. That instrument in turn was based on earlier European fretless Zther folk instruments. The German word "Zither" means "String Instrument" . Jewish/Roman Historian Flavius Josephus (37 - 100 AD) states in Chapter 12 paragraph 3 of "Antiquities of the Jews": "And now David being free from wars and dangers and enjoying for the future a profound peace, composed songs and hymns to God .....He also made instruments of music. Now the construction of the instruments was thus: The Viol was an instrument played upon with a bow, the Psaltery had twelve notes and was played upon with the fingers. And so much shall suffice to be spoken by us about these instruments, that the reader may not be wholly unacquainted with their nature."
when I got a bowed psaltery I decided to hit it slightly firmly on the wood side and it made a cool noise for one string it sounded like a twinkle but every string sounded like a horror game.
Actually one of the cool things about the Psaltery/Box Harp family of musical instruments is they can be adapted for plucking, bowing, and just banging on. You would be be interested in the "Salterio" , a long batch of strings and sound box worn on your chest for you to beat on or scrape it with a stick in one hand, while playing a tabor pipe with the other hand is just one kind of string drum. Other "Psalteries" include the Auto Harp, Hammer Dulcimers, and Pianos. Another thing I like to do is hold my Bowed Psaltery up to a not to strong steady wind and find the right angle for the wind to play it.
I'm very happy to have introduced you to the "Bowed" Psaltery. The Psaltery, Box Harp, or fretless Zither design for musical instruments is highly adaptable with many plucked versions including Kanteles and Autoharps. The Piano, Harpsichord group are also developed from the same ancient concept. So, in fact, you have seen a Psaltery played before!
Im taking history class for music, and we are currently learning about psaltery and dulcimer, and I wanted to see and hear what they would be like. Thank you for sharing!
A psaltery is a very different instrument from a bowed psaltery. Bowed psaltery = 20th century invention. Whereas a psaltery (also called a pig-nosed psaltery) and hammered dulcimer (as opposed to the other types of fretted dulcimer) are medieval.
So I am reading 1st Samuel and he has just anointed Saul's head with oil and gives him a vision about what is to come. He says he will see a man plucking a psaltry and I had no idea what that was and Googled it up. I seen the images and then went to UA-cam to hear it. Your's came up and this is very nice with the bows. Thanks 👍🏽
If you go and look at the Latvian musical instrument "Kokle" music videos their instrument and how they play it is closest to how the Semitic instrument translated a "Psaltery" in the King James Bible looked and was played. David as a young sheherd boy would have had the most simple version . For soothing King Saul they would have supplied him with a much bigger nicer one. King David had access to all sorts of harps and other stringed instruments including early bowed "viols' (according to Flavius Josephus) already has the Levite house of Korash assigned to building and playing instruments for temple uses so when new musical instruments arrived in a shipment from the King of Tyre he ordered them to "examine them for what innovations could be found". The Psaltery or Box Harp family of instruments includes the AutoHarp, Kantles, Pianos, and are often confused with Zithers which have frets and some musicologists make Psalteries a sub category of though they are closer related to harps. Here is a good example of what Kokles sound and play like...ua-cam.com/video/42rNPJf5uFw/v-deo.html
My goodness! Only 2 months later and this video will go over 2000 views! I Determined some of my high note notches needed adjustment shortly after making this video so the sound could be better. Maybe I'll try again.
Thank you for your interest in Psalteries also called Box Harps and Fretless Zithers, mine is one of the Bowed Psalteries designed to be played on with a bow, other Psalteries are designed to be plucked or strummed like the Kantele, the Autoharp, and the Salterio, a plucked Hammer Dulcimer. Many people are unaware the piano is actually considered a member of the Psaltery group. Please visit my Playlist "Bowed Psaltery Related Instruments" to see other versions.....ua-cam.com/play/PL3pzeLVx46cJxLvEQBMdjYGuy48Ep794O.html
Love it. I've thought about getting one. Yet it is very ear piercing. Not sure I can listen to it enough to practice it.. Very cool instrument. You played very well.
I bought my daughter a psaltery from a man near Galax, VA. His last name is Rogers; he made them. Down the road from him lived a 90 yo lady whose husband (RIP) made beautiful dulcimers...too expensive for me to buy. My daughter's psaltery has 24 strings. She played violin in school for 9 years.
An elegant instrument, elegantly played. I believe something like it, only used with hammers, like a dulcimer, was the precursor of the harpsichord. The spacious slow melody is sixteenth century and the connection to Henry is spurious, but appealing. Psalteries were not much used after the fifteenth century. Angels can be seen in paintings and church roofs playing them with their fingers. The sound they made depends on the tuning of the courses. And walls were often covered with curtains and fabrics which would have made a difference. So the piercing sound this one makes is a bit of a shot in the dark. But the sound of this one is certainly very atmospheric.
To bow or not to bow, that is the question! Sorry can't help myself, I can't play the Psaltery, but I'm working on my Punnery...Ouch! Beautiful sound - -looks HARD tor play!
Very noticeable is that some notes set off other notes without touching their strings. I have a washtub that gives this effect when I hum certain notes loudly.I bore on the olympic level...(c:
So....my grandparents owned one of these for years until they passed it on to us, and I always thought you plucked it like a normal harp....but this. This is so much better
"Psalteries are the Box Harp or Fretless Zithers are a highly adaptable family of musical instruments in our modern times represented by the Kantele, the Autoharp, the piano and others.
Danke fürs Zuhören! Dieses Video war eines meiner ersten vor sieben Jahren - ich habe versucht, eine Weiterentwicklung der Stile von der einfachen Ein-Bogen-Spielweise bis hin zu einigen Zwei-Bogen-Spielmethoden zu zeigen. Bitte schauen Sie sich einige meiner widerrufeneren Videos an
This is another fascinating and beautiful presentation of music on an instrunment that I have never heard of. It's amazing how much variation there is in string instruments alone!!
I heard a note or two of a psaltery--no more--many long years ago, in "It's Cool in the Furnace" (for the scene where Nebuchadnezzar lays down the law: When you hear the music, bow down and worship this idol or be completely immolated).
Played in the Bible all Samuel 6:5
Now "Greensleeves" on Bowed Psaltery has been viewed over 10,000 times by folks all around the world! Thank you all and UA-cam for helping me spread the word on what a great musical instrument the Bowed Psaltery is. HELLO! I'm Gregg Schneeman from the year 2023 time traveling back to my comment here to thank everyone who have been subscribed and listening to my channel all these years. My very early with poor sound quality Greensleeves here has now gotten over 300,000 Views, 4,505 Likes and 70 Dislikes. I since have made close to 1,000 Bowed Psaltery and Dulcimer videos. They all together have gotten 545,687 views, 12,124 likes, 130 dislikes, and have been watched for 10.5K hours! I hope I've encouraged a greater interest in playing the Bowed Psaltery. KEEP ON PSALTING!
Gregg E. Schneeman And thank you for unintentionally reminding me about the bowed psaltry I made a few years back. I stopped playing it... but I'm thinking of learning your arrangement. I wonder where that thing got to.
yeah, it makes a beautiful sound but it seems hard to manipulate
Thank YOU, sir! My dad used to sing a song with this same tune to me every night before I went to sleep called A Home in the Meadow.
Hey! Greg. I just came upon your videos while viewing Rick's. Met and jammed with you and Jeanie in the West Pines at Evart. What spectacular playing! I am The fiddler that "maybe someday" the you mentioned in your prolog. My sister gave me a Bowed Psaltery kit to build. There is still enough winter left, here in the Mitten, to have it ready by spring. I know where y'all are on You Tube, now.
Best to the Both of y'all.
Tony
The West Pines Troglodyte & Hammered Fiddle Player
Almost at 100k, now!
“Guilliman could already hear it: a psaltery, a bass psaltery, peeling its long, sad, pure notes into the night air. The echo was pronounced. The hydroponics gallery was a large space, but Guilliman was sure it could not have produced quite that kind of echo. The sound seemed to come from the heart of the world, as if it was rising out of some tectonically riven abyss.”
-Excerpt From The Unremembered Empire by Dan Abnett
Amazing!, Brilliant! Nostalgic! Sounds like a crystal clear morning or a winter evening by the fire, incredible!! Goes directly to the heart!
Word
What a beautiful crystalline sound!
Echoes from somewhere beyond time, so beautiful
_Fascinating._ I looked this up whilst reading Psalms, and I had no idea what a psaltery was. Amazing. You play it wonderfully, too :-)
Hammurabi me too 😆
I’m reading Daniel 3, but same thing
Reading Psalms is what made me look up this instrument as well.
cheers .same with me right now am on psalm 33
This is not the instrument mention in the Psalms. That was an earlier instrument, a type of plucked psaltery. The bowed psaltery was invented in the 1920s.
So very beautiful and one of my favorite childhood songs, THANKS, I needed to hear that!
This set my cat off. She's yowling hysterically
too creepy. Mine too.
@Pareidolia not loud noises cats ears are much more sensitive to higher frequencies we arent as sensitive too.....
cats only like catmusic .
😂
Same
Wish instruments like these were used more often they just have that certain sound to them that sets them apart from modern instruments..
It is a modern instrument, from the early 20th century. But yeah, it's got a cool sound
@@orfeo793the psaltery is of Ancient Greek origin. You’re a couple of thousand years off.
@@jimsime1 Talking about the bowed psaltery, which was created in the 1920s. Well aware of how ancient regular psalteries are
@@jimsime1the bowed psaltery, in particular, WAS invented in the early 20th century. Instruments resembling the psaltery do date back that far, but not in this particular format.
This is the first bowed paltry I’ve seen since I bought mine at a craft fair in North Carolina about 35 years ago. While I am anything but proficient in it, mine has brought me great joy. The craftsman who made mine said these were frequently used in Germany after the war to teach music in schools, because they were easier to craft than the destroyed pianos they were replacing. (I have no idea how true this is.)
I believe you are referring to George Kelichek, who I had the pleasure to meet and play Bowed Psalteries with one time in the 1990's when he and his son came to Los Angeles.
You're wearing green sleeves while playing it haha. Nice song, I love the sound of this instrument.
I can’t even imagine playing with 2 bows running the opposite way. Wow. I am just not that coordinated! Very interesting sound. I have a few stringed instruments myself, but not proficient on any.
Nehemiah 12:27b
To keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgiving, and with singing, with cymbals, PSALTERIES, and with harps.
Psalm 150:3
Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet: praise Him with the PSALTERY and harp.
Hallelujah, PRAISE THE LORD!!
My cat loves psaltery music, especially this video. She gets very affectionate and up close to whoever is nearby when it plays. Something about the psaltery turns a switch on in her, so thank you for posting.
What a beautiful sound! Thanks for sharing!
BEAUTIFUL!!!!! I discovered this instrument this week while working as a caroler at Old Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, MA. The musician even let me play it after we told him I was a piano player & was very curious about it. We played a duet of "In the Bleak Midwinter" with him on dulcimer. I feel like I need to get one now!!!
Spring creek psaltries make high quality beautiful psaltries. I have three ( different makers). My Spring Creek is my favorite
My grandma called this thing a Zinger. Love the music ❤
I've always read about this instrument in the Bible. This is the first time seeing and hearing! Beautiful and brilliant playing. Thank you!
Many people tell me they've never seen a psaltery before - but the psaltery group is described as "Fretless box harps with the strings running parallel to the sound box." Which modern day versions of include the Autoharp, the Piano/key board group, kanteles, kokles, and in many countries where the are plucked Salterios known here in America as Hammer Dulcimers. The word psaltery can also refer to high leaping dances. King David is accused by his wife Michal, daughter of Saul of having leaped lewdly before the Ark of the Covenant as it was brought to Jerusalem. Read Second Samuel chapter six.
I love this song my grandma plays it on a bowed psaltery at a festival
I just got my first psaltery today via Facebook Marketplace and I am in love! Listening to this video I had tears in my eyes. I am going to learn this and hopefully play as well as you played this. Thank you !!
That was incredibly beautiful ❤
I love ancient music instruments and its music! Thanks for sharing!
It's not ancient, it's from the 20th century
I'm so glad I found out about this instrument
I just received a psaltry kit to build. Now I'm inspired. Thank you!
Please look at my video "Bowed Psaltery Tour" and its comments area for my BP information, see it at...ua-cam.com/video/Bf5v4e0SLKA/v-deo.html
I just read about this instrument in the Holy Scriptures and man I am so amazed. Thank you 🙏🏾 for sharing
The Psaltery Family of musical instruments also called Box Harps or Fretless Zithers comes in many forms configured for the way they are intended to be played. Among the Psalteries that are played today are: Pianos, Autoharps, Kantleles, Persian Kanuns, and, in the countries where they are plucked, Hammer Dulcimers are called Salterios. The word Psaltery actually means to move about with hops, skips, and jumps, so there are high leaping dances called Salteros. A book is called a psalter as you are flipping pages as opposed to unrolling a scroll.
When I read Psalm 27 I always wondered what a psaltery was and how it sounded. When I saw the picture I never imagined such a beautiful sound could come from something looking like that. I'd love to learn how to play this instrument.
Psalteries are the ancient Box Harp or Fretless Zithers a highly adaptable family of musical instruments based on the Monochord, in our modern times represented by the Kantele, the Autoharp, the piano and others. Please visit my "Bowed Psaltery Tour" video where I'm putting more Bowed Psaltery in formation in the comment area.
Same exact reason I’m here , I’ve never heard of this instrument. It’s wonderful 💕💕💕💕
I'm happy these still exist and are being played today. I was reading the Bible and the Sackbut and Psaltery was mentioned. I imagine this is what Heaven is going to sound like.
It will and then you will enter the “light”, like a moth to a flame.
Wow, the resonance the bell tones is astonishing. I am familiar with bell tones from playing cello - they really sound like bells in the bowed psaltery. Just gorgeous!
Thank you! If you live in Los Angeles area I'd love to play with you and your cello anytime!
Wunderschön! So habe ich den Psalter noch nie gehört. Danke.
Danke fürs Zuhören! Dieses Video war eines meiner ersten vor sieben Jahren - ich habe versucht, eine Weiterentwicklung der Stile von der einfachen Ein-Bogen-Spielweise bis hin zu einigen Zwei-Bogen-Spielmethoden zu zeigen. Bitte schauen Sie sich einige meiner widerrufeneren Videos an
Psalms 33:2 praise the Lord with harp. sing unto him with psaltery and an instrument of 10 strings Beautiful music. Blessings abound.
Its now a year since I made this video, thank you folks for watching it over 6,000 times! All together I've made 100 videos here on UA-cam with more to come, please check them out as well.
Gregg E. Schneeman thank you. I am going to look for the music
I have made several of these bowed psalteries
I'm interested in hearing more about your Bowed Psaltery building, consider joining "Psaltery Strings" BP players site.
My grandfather gave me his bowed psaltery when I was ten. Played it off and on for special occasions...but I’ve never found a place to play it often. I love it though. 😊 Thank you for sharing your talents.
Soon this video I made of "Greensleeves" will go over 1000 views! I want to thank everyone that has taken the time to watch it, I hope its been instructive. Thanks to those who "Liked" it and my other videos. More to come!
I love this song and it sounds so beautiful on this instrument!
Thanks!
Великолепно! Как будто гномы сыграли, а ангелы подыграли.
BEAUTIFUL! THANK YOU!
So beautiful!!! I love these. ❤️
This is what David was playing!? I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't this. Wow! Beautiful!
Biblically speaking the simplest version of the Kantele family of "Box Harps" the Latvian Kokle's playing technique probably is similar how shepherd boy David's instrument worked (though not metal strung) hear it played at ..ua-cam.com/video/Phb1Aho9FwA/v-deo.html As time went by more elaborate plucked or hammered psateries would have been available to King David, see..ua-cam.com/video/3mjEIQOVdnw/v-deo.html How far back bowed musical Instruments, using a rosined stick, horse hair bow, or rosined wheel like a Hurdy Gurdy go is a point of contention among musicologists. Please see my "Bowed Psaltery Tour" and History video.
Beautiful, exquisite song, The King of Kings Salvation Brings.
My grandma just pulled one out that is 150+ years old and we figured out how its supposed to be played because od this video. Thank you!
I'd love to see a picture of it and any information on an inside label!
Wow. That was beautiful. Thank you.
Tell all your friends!
Your technique is impeccable. Thanks for posting
this video has no thumb downs, no wonder why, this is beautiful and mesmerizing
I like all of your songs!
Never seen or heard this instrument before, thanks for posting your performance
Its so beautiful, why does it it not have much more views,
Reading in psalms when I suddenly decided to find out what a psaltery is. Thanks for this video.
Harps have their strings running up from a sound box to a usually non acoustic tone arm where the tuning pegs are. Psalteries, sometimes called fretless zithers, have their strings running parallel to the sound box. I have heard people say "I've never seen a Psaltery before!" but if you have seen a Piano, a Hammer Dulcimer, or an Autoharp you have seen a few of the configurations the Psaltery family of instruments. The triangular metal stringed chromatic Bowed Psaltery with nickel plated steel zither pins that I play is a more modern adaptation based on the 1850's German Violin - Zither, a much larger instrument with sets of strings arraigned in chords meant to be strummed to accompany the bowed strings. That instrument in turn was based on earlier European fretless Zther folk instruments. The German word "Zither" means "String Instrument" . Jewish/Roman Historian Flavius Josephus (37 - 100 AD) states in Chapter 12 paragraph 3 of "Antiquities of the Jews": "And now David being free from wars and dangers and enjoying for the future a profound peace, composed songs and hymns to God .....He also made instruments of music. Now the construction of the instruments was thus: The Viol was an instrument played upon with a bow, the Psaltery had twelve notes and was played upon with the fingers. And so much shall suffice to be spoken by us about these instruments, that the reader may not be wholly unacquainted with their nature."
when I got a bowed psaltery I decided to hit it slightly firmly on the wood side and it made a cool noise for one string it sounded like a twinkle but every string sounded like a horror game.
Actually one of the cool things about the Psaltery/Box Harp family of musical instruments is they can be adapted for plucking, bowing, and just banging on. You would be be interested in the "Salterio" , a long batch of strings and sound box worn on your chest for you to beat on or scrape it with a stick in one hand, while playing a tabor pipe with the other hand is just one kind of string drum. Other "Psalteries" include the Auto Harp, Hammer Dulcimers, and Pianos. Another thing I like to do is hold my Bowed Psaltery up to a not to strong steady wind and find the right angle for the wind to play it.
Это очень необычно и красиво! Продолжайте радовать нас!
Wow...how beautiful..
Thanks! You sound amazing! Studying David and the instruments he played🙂
Thank you for your video. I have not seen or heard a psaltery played before.
I'm very happy to have introduced you to the "Bowed" Psaltery. The Psaltery, Box Harp, or fretless Zither design for musical instruments is highly adaptable with many plucked versions including Kanteles and Autoharps. The Piano, Harpsichord group are also developed from the same ancient concept. So, in fact, you have seen a Psaltery played before!
Gorgeous sound i wish i could try one…
Wonderful job! I've just gotten out m psaltery again.... didn't ever really learn it before. You are an inspiration! Thank you for sharing!
Just remembered the times when i was playing mount and blades Warband. Damn.
Damn bro.
Im taking history class for music, and we are currently learning about psaltery and dulcimer, and I wanted to see and hear what they would be like. Thank you for sharing!
A psaltery is a very different instrument from a bowed psaltery.
Bowed psaltery = 20th century invention.
Whereas a psaltery (also called a pig-nosed psaltery) and hammered dulcimer (as opposed to the other types of fretted dulcimer) are medieval.
Two bows - wow, very skillful and sound is beautiful. Well done.
Sounds medieval. Sweet!
Hi Greg, thanks for subscribing. Of course, you are a major influence in my playing and the reason I bought an instrument.
So I am reading 1st Samuel and he has just anointed Saul's head with oil and gives him a vision about what is to come. He says he will see a man plucking a psaltry and I had no idea what that was and Googled it up. I seen the images and then went to UA-cam to hear it. Your's came up and this is very nice with the bows. Thanks 👍🏽
If you go and look at the Latvian musical instrument "Kokle" music videos their instrument and how they play it is closest to how the Semitic instrument translated a "Psaltery" in the King James Bible looked and was played. David as a young sheherd boy would have had the most simple version . For soothing King Saul they would have supplied him with a much bigger nicer one. King David had access to all sorts of harps and other stringed instruments including early bowed "viols' (according to Flavius Josephus) already has the Levite house of Korash assigned to building and playing instruments for temple uses so when new musical instruments arrived in a shipment from the King of Tyre he ordered them to "examine them for what innovations could be found". The Psaltery or Box Harp family of instruments includes the AutoHarp, Kantles, Pianos, and are often confused with Zithers which have frets and some musicologists make Psalteries a sub category of though they are closer related to harps. Here is a good example of what Kokles sound and play like...ua-cam.com/video/42rNPJf5uFw/v-deo.html
Ce sont fait vibrer mon cœur, et mes oreilles👌
My goodness! Only 2 months later and this video will go over 2000 views! I Determined some of my high note notches needed adjustment shortly after making this video so the sound could be better. Maybe I'll try again.
160k views 😏
Such a nice piece ❤❤❤❤
Heavenly sounds 🥰
How wonderful! King David played his music for God and it must have been much like this. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful!!❤
I looked up a psaltery after just reading about it, only to see the first result is one of my all-time favourite pieces! :')
Thank you for your interest in Psalteries also called Box Harps and Fretless Zithers, mine is one of the Bowed Psalteries designed to be played on with a bow, other Psalteries are designed to be plucked or strummed like the Kantele, the Autoharp, and the Salterio, a plucked Hammer Dulcimer. Many people are unaware the piano is actually considered a member of the Psaltery group. Please visit my Playlist "Bowed Psaltery Related Instruments" to see other versions.....ua-cam.com/play/PL3pzeLVx46cJxLvEQBMdjYGuy48Ep794O.html
gregg just bought my granddaughter(11) a psaltry and in two days she was playing amazing grace great video
That's Great!
wait, is this instrument EASY to play?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
I drooled while listening 🙏🔥
Love it. I've thought about getting one. Yet it is very ear piercing. Not sure I can listen to it enough to practice it.. Very cool instrument. You played very well.
Very nice! I like the additional bow!
Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.
Nice! Just what I would think medieval music would have sounded like. 🎶🎵🎶
Beautiful
Soooo beautiful ♡♡♡
Wow! Just wow!
Beautiful!!!
thank you for the info!
I bought my daughter a psaltery from a man near Galax, VA. His last name is Rogers; he made them. Down the road from him lived a 90 yo lady whose husband (RIP) made beautiful dulcimers...too expensive for me to buy. My daughter's psaltery has 24 strings. She played violin in school for 9 years.
Thank you for sharing your story
An elegant instrument, elegantly played. I believe something like it, only used with hammers, like a dulcimer, was the precursor of the harpsichord. The spacious slow melody is sixteenth century and the connection to Henry is spurious, but appealing. Psalteries were not much used after the fifteenth century. Angels can be seen in paintings and church roofs playing them with their fingers. The sound they made depends on the tuning of the courses.
And walls were often covered with curtains and fabrics which would have made a difference. So the piercing sound this one makes is a bit of a shot in the dark. But the sound of this one is certainly very atmospheric.
Saw that instrument today first time! And order one in Germany!
Спасибо за музыку👍. Мне понравилась музыка
To bow or not to bow, that is the question! Sorry can't help myself, I can't play the Psaltery, but I'm working on my Punnery...Ouch! Beautiful sound - -looks HARD tor play!
Das pustet die Ohren durch ❤
its a good song for calm relaxing
Very noticeable is that some notes set off other notes without touching their strings. I have a washtub that gives this effect when I hum certain notes loudly.I bore on the olympic level...(c:
So....my grandparents owned one of these for years until they passed it on to us, and I always thought you plucked it like a normal harp....but this. This is so much better
Lindo! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🙏🏿
Reading Daniel 3 and wanted to know what instrument this was. I like it.
"Psalteries are the Box Harp or Fretless Zithers are a highly adaptable family of musical instruments in our modern times represented by the Kantele, the Autoharp, the piano and others.
Sharp sounding, very neat. I was reading a romance novel and had to learn what this was.
This is lovely!
Thank you!
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Good job!
Wonderful thank you. I'll subscribe
Very pretty. Looks a little tricky with two bows but really richens the shound.
Excellent
what a majestic sounding instrument.
perhaps one reserved for sophisticated ears. ¦D
Yo this is so cool 😱.
Never heard anything like it. BRAVO
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Gorgeous