Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. “The one thing that you ...

This term was actually a mistranslation for a type of Greek bagpipe that gave rise to the often quoted, but incorrect, belief that the dulcimer is as old as the Bible. It is unclear when the first ...

Leonard Bernstein is a man of so many parts that he finds it hard to find time for the part that is serious composer. He had not composed a work since the Kaddish symphony two years ago. But he ...

Hector Larios and Alejandra BarrientosMexican 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 ...

As unusual as the bowed psaltery is, he makes and plays an even more rare version with two bows for an even richer sound. It's a sweet sound that persuaded Rick Long to learn it and to love it.

I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee. It is he that giveth Bible verse - Psalm 144:9-10; quote by Sai Baba ...

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 ...