Musical instruments

[rbenne]

Lap dulcimer, easy to learn light to carry, even its name means "pretty music"

[blue_zouave]

Miss Belle, the guitar was considered a women's instrument at that time more than others. You're right in "in tune."
For some thoughts on authentic music, go to my friend Jerry Ernst's site
http://members.aol.com/Jerund/jerund.html
and click on "Authenticity" down close to the end. He also has some links for period music studies.

Zou (who plays "at" a lot of instruments, and is the master of none)

[bama_belle]

Zou,

Thank you for the information. The guitar lessons have been put on hold for a little bit (have to find a new instructor - long story).

However, the musical instrument question has been solved for now.
We were at Trade Days at Tannehill last weekend, and hubby made the mistake of letting me wander into the instrument maker's cabin.

I fell in love. Originally I had been saying I wanted a dulcimer.
I wound up with a bowed psaltery. The one I have is not exactly period and if someone wanted to be picky about it, they could, but because the psaltery has been around since biblical times, I think there will be very little said about it.

And it has been super easy to learn to play. As a bonus, my fingers aren't sore (which is a double bonus since I have to ***** my finger 3+ times a day for blood sugar testing!)

Anyway, if y'all are at Tannehill this weekend and hear some poor fool sounding like they're gutting a cat, it's probably me missing a note!

[bama_belle]

Hmmm.. OK for some reason it wouldn't let me say "***** my finger" rofl

insert "stick" where the ***** are!