minstrel: new topic

[Christopher Gregory (Richard Crowder)]

> A member of our household is interested in acquiring a bowed psaltry.  I have
> heard some debate of the "period-ness" of this instrument.  Could folk here
> enlighten me, so that I may pass the information to her?
> 
> Rowen
I know that the plucked psaltery is incredibly period, but I think the use
of a bow on a triangular psaltery is a 20th century invention.


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