minstrel: "Bowed" dulcimer

[Lyndall / Val]

>...I saw a musician in San Francisco a number of years ago who played a
>hammered dulcimer with finger-bows.

His name is Michael Masley, and he states the "bowhammers" as he 
calls them are his own invention. Curved metal rods slipped over 
fingertips, with the "hammer" section covered with (I believe) 
rubber, so he can stroke the strings or strike them. He was not 
trying to reproduce any historical technique but rather innovating 
new effects. Very pretty, very clever, but almost certainly not 
"period".

If you want to contact him, try c/o Tonehenge 
Productions/Happensdance Music, PO Box 5232, Berkeley, CA 94705 
(addr. from a CD jacket)

~Valadonis

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