minstrel: Images of triangular psalteries?

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The Sutton Hoo instrument isn't bowed though, is it? The images I have seen 
showing it being played in manuscripts etc depict a plucked instrument, 
theories being that the strings were plucked from the front and "stopped" 
from behind in some fashion.... (this is a vital question as we are in the 
midst of reconstructing one and "bow" hasn't come up as a required piece of 
equipment thus far!)

Blue

At 17:49 01/04/02 -0800, nickolas kaugon wrote:
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>.it does appear that many cultures had a bowed
>similar instrument as one was found in the sutton hoo
>mound. it was likely played as a drone for singing or
>chanting poetry, but it may have been possible to play
>melody. i have seen ethopian folk "crwths" played by
>fingering the strings from behind with long nails and
>bowing the noted strings from the front. a difficuly
>technique but doable.

~~The Lyre Project ~~
constructing a replica of the Sutton Hoo lyre
http://www.saphir.u-net.com/lyre/