minstrel: Images of triangular psalteries?

[Blue]

On checking the only reference book I have to hand (Musical Instruments of 
the World published by Sterling), there are numerous reproductions of 
medieaval drawings of people playing plucked psalteries of various shapes. 
The text [oints out that early psalteries were square or triangular, 
gaining the more popular hog nose shape in the 14th or 15th century. There 
is one illustration with a triangular instrument being held, and clearly 
being plucked by the person involved.... not sure if that helps, if you 
don't have the book I can highly recommend it as a quick reference source, 
it lacks depth but covers a wide number of instruments worldwide from the 
earliest times to modern day electric things.

Blue


At 09:06 01/04/02 -0500, dglenn at radix.net wrote:
>On my musical instruments page (http://www.radix.net/~dglenn/defs/inst.html),
>describing the bowed psaltery, I repeated information I'd read
>when I was researching them:  that iconographic evidence exists
>for similarly *shaped* instruments in period, but that the
>instruments pictured are not conclusively bowed psalteries.
>
>Someone accidentally called me on my sloppy research (relying on
>secondary/tertiary sources for that info w/o digging further).
>They want to know where to find the pictures (not realizing that
>I hadn't seen the pictures myself).  I was wondering whether
>anyone here had some pointers.