I’m proud to announce the beginning of a blog about bowed psalteries. I plan to use this area as an outlet to all of my ideas and thoughts on developing the bowed psaltery.

Basically, anything that might be too trivial or irrelevant for my official news and updates page will be listed here.

I hope to use this area to bounce around ideas and thoughts to incorporate into making a “perfect” bowed psaltery. (Whatever that may be to each person.)

To start things out, I just want to list a few things that I’ve be strongly considering to add to my options list:

• Alternative saddle materials: bone, eco-friendly ivory, and carbon fiber
• More string choices: silverplated-wound and nylon (the silver plated ones show a lot of potential in allowing a bowed psaltery to sound a full two octaves below a standard plain-steel string psaltery!)
• Cosmetic upgrades: more note marker choices, color-matching tops to match back/sides, some interesting tiered rose designs and binding patterns

I’ve got a lot more ideas to implement, I just need the time, and an “experimental” psaltery to test them all out on.