Music & Techniques by Chris Vaisvil

Home Made Psaltry

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Being inspired by Denny Genovese using a psaltry at the oddmusic garden walk through I made a solid body psaltry which will be electrified at some future point. The recording I have here was made with a Zoom H2 sitting next to the psaltry. I tuned it by ear and checking it in V-Vocal it appears to be JI but more or less a mixed 3-limit. The recording is played without and with effects.

http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=1634

Materials used to construct it

18″ Wooden Table Top
Towel Rack
Set of tuners salvaged from a classical guitar
E, A, D strings from a clearance set of electric guitar strings
A U-bolt from a hardware store

Comments

4 responses to “Home Made Psaltry”

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  2. david bellinger

    nice psaltry. i heard about this on oddmusic.

  3. admin

    I recorded it with a Zoom H2 right next to it. Then I loaded the recording into Sonar 8.5 and made several copies of the performance. On the first half of the MP3 linked here the sound is just the psaltry with a bit of compression. Next is the same recording with effects added.

  4. Rob

    It sounds like there are some electronics involved in the recording. How do you have his mic’d? Is there a contact mic involved?

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