TANNEHILL, Alabama – The Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park will play host to the 18th annual Down Home Psaltery Festival on Friday and Saturday, according to a news release today from the park ...

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 ...

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 ...

She brought along her bowed psaltery, a wooden triangular instrument strung with steel wire and played by running a bamboo bow over the wires. “I just learned how to play a Hawaiian song,” Bradford ...

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 ...

To most Americans, the hammered dulcimer is a new and unfamiliar instrument. Even people who know much about American music often confuse the hammered dulcimer with the three- or four-stringed ...