minstrel: Thanks from Rosamunde

[Mike Baker]

> Now, out of mere curiosity, is a "bowed psaltery" in period?  I saw a
> young woman playing one on campus; it looked somewhat like a rebec but was
> smaller and held lower.

Psaltery, both bowed and plucked, are definitely within the scope of the 
standard SCA timeframe ("period").

HE Robin of Gilwell (OP,WSA,Lion of Ansteorra, etc.), within the SCA a 
somewhat reknowned poet / rhetorician & man of more talents than I can ever 
hope to keep up with, has been known to occasionally play a bowed psaltery 
tuned to non-"Western" scales. The aural effect was similar to some of the 
Chinese stringed instruments I have heard.

(Please accept my apologies for forgetting the exact terminology. At least 
part of the reference was "non-diatonic"?  I'm more of a practical than 
theoretical musician with very limited instrumental ability or training, and 
the formal terms sometimes escape my cognizance).

Pax ... Kihe

Kihe Blackeagle (the Dreamsinger Bard)  s.k.a. Amr ibn Majid al-Bakri 
al-Amra
     currently residing in Barony of the Steppes, Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mike C. Baker                      mbaker at rapp.com
Any opinions expressed are obviously my own unless explicitly stated 
otherwise! 

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