Bowed Psalteries from Dreamsinger Harps

Psalteries

Bowed Psalteries
(Psaltery is the English pronunciation of the German word Zither)
(the P is silent)

The world's easiest instrument to learn to play!

Each string is tuned to one note. You only one note at a time. Every string is labeled with the letter of the note it plays. Just find the letter of the note you wish to play, and bow that string. The "C" scale is on the right side; sharps and flats are on the left (unless you order a left-handed one).
This makes it as easy as playing a piano with one finger (if there were letters on the keys)
but sounds like a mini violin.

Each Psaltery comes with:

Tuning Wrench,
Bow,
Rosin
Extra wire
and an "Easy Play" song book with the letter of the note inside the note so If you can read the alphabet, you can play a bowed psaltery.

30 Strings
2 1/2 octaves
from low F (top)
to high Bflat (lower left)
$199.95 + $10.95 S&H

Cases (soft) : $30.00 extra
You can buy one NOW by calling:
1-313-506-8147
or mail a check for $210.90 to
DREAMSINGER HARPS
3407 Arbor Rd
Lakewood, CA 90712

or use PAYPAL
to Send Money to:
Muis@dreamsingerharps.com
3407

History
The bowed psaltery is based on medieval instruments which seem to have appeared a thousand years ago. Because it cannot be played a quickly as a violin it has never been used as an Orchestral Instrument. But instruments like this have been around. In the early 1900's "Ukalins" were sold door-to-door to people who never played an instrument before. It has been redesigned in this century as a teaching instrument (see the psaltery expert at the left!). For anyone older, it's an instrument you don't need an instructor or need to read music to learn to play. New "easy play" music books have the letter of the note right in the music.

My Bowed Psalteries are mostly made from Poplar with a Spruce soundboard for a rich resonant sound. They are strung with #1 piano wire. (.009) (hey, that's the same as an E string off a guitar!)

If the universe is vibration, and physics says it is,
And the laws of the universe are the laws of vibration,
Then the universe obeys the laws of music: LET'S DANCE!