Our collective relationship with nature and the past were at one time much more closely tied than they are now. Memories and tales were married to geography, word of mouth, and the distance one could ...

(WBIR-Clinton) An instrument that was probably invented in the 1920s in Germany or Austria can be heard here in East Tennessee. The sweet sound of a bowed psaltery convinced Rick Long to learn to play ...

Nearly 50 performers from across the United States gathered Sunday at Tamarack to perform in the eighth annual Bowed Psaltery Symphony. Many of the instruments bowed on stage were made right at ...

Warm tones of old-time music fill the living room of Gregg Schneeman’s Arcadia home, as he bends and gingerly plays his bowed psaltery. On another chair sits San Dimas resident Leo Kretzner, who ...

Mexican instrumentalist Alejandra Barrientos began to play the psaltery when she was just five. At the time she lived with her family in Mexico city where she attended a special school with an all ...

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148 x 100.3 cm. (58.3 x 39.5 in.) ...