Explore: Psalteries

psalteries, are used to translate several words from the Hebrew Bible whose meaning is now unknown. While the Greek instruments were harps, psaltery came

American bowed psaltery variants. Ukelin.com a site covering early 20th-century American bowed psalteries Ringing Strings Bowed Psalteries Basic Instruction

sometimes used in English to also refer to other Baltic psalteries as well. Many of the Baltic psalteries hold a strong symbolic significance in their respective

22 strings on each side. The playing position was different from other psalteries, as the Rotte might be held like a harp, leaned sideways (flat against

type of box zither related to the Lithuanian kanklės and other Baltic psalteries. In the 1970s, artists like Jānis Poriķis and Valdis Muktupāvels led a

Gjallarhorn, and the Finnish-Swedish Norrlåtar and JP Nyströms. Baltic psalteries are a family of related plucked box zithers played throughout Finland

music includes various kinds of bagpipes, flutes, horns, trumpets, lutes, psalteries, drums and cymbals. The kolo is the traditional collective folk dance

traditional use of these names: there are plenty of illustrations where psalteries are hit and traditions where dulcimers are plucked. The point is rather

legends, and can be accompanied by musical instruments such as Baltic psalteries (e.g. kokles). Dainas tend to be very short (usually four-liners) and

belonging to the southeast Baltic box zither family known as the Baltic psaltery along with the Estonian kannel, the Latvian kokles, the Lithuanian kanklės