FREE Medieval Psaltery from Bolder Sounds

[VicDiesel]

You folks are most welcome, I really enjoy giving stuff away.

Not entirely. The people that I've seen play this hold a bow in each hand, so at least you can tie "left" and "right" notes, if not any pair of notes.

That I did not know. So how do you hold it while bowing it with each hand?

I've seen people put it on a stand.



Btw, the plucked or hammered psaltery is medieval (in fact I heard one played last night in a concert of 13/14th century Italian music), but the bowed one is decidedly modern. Late 19th century at best.


Victor.

[pekadan]

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Wow, it sounds like a flute!

[vurt]

i wanna be a hurdy gurdy man!
i love hurdy gurdys

[marce]

I just tryed it today, and it is very nice! I converted it to sfz since i dont have Kontakt, but it works very well.

Thanks for share

[himalaya]

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Wow, it sounds like a flute!

Not at all.
The bowed psaltery is audible solo in the first 4 seconds only. From then on, it's played with a full backing, where you have the flute.

It sounds more like some kind of rustic violin with spring reverb:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aD_dsfp1U ... re=related

[atrace_]

Awesome! TYVM, I love samples of old, weird instruments.

[Rahere]

Sorry, I play a BP too. It's not a historic instrument at all, it was invented in Germany in the 1930s, although there were some similar older instruments in the US dating back to the 1890s. Similarly to the recorder (which in the modern version sounds somewhat different from the Renaissance instrument, partly because of the pitch change, but also because different materials, fingerings and fipple were used) and folk harp (which is a cut-down concert harp with levers rather than a pedal mechanism - the wire-strung clarsach is the real thing), the BP was created by the Kodaly-Orff circle as a path into music from primary school pupils. And yes, I play all three.
It is highly enharmonic, fast becoming readopted as a meditative sound-bath instrument as a result, alongside the sound bowl.