Posts by elemtilas
Til Norðheims! Just to clarify: if you're asking about the fretted instrument, that one's a mandolin. If you're asking about the unfretted instrument, then continue on! It's a tagelharpa. A bette...
Tradition! That bow you've got for your psaltery is an attempt at making a bow in the ancient style. Very early bows were highly arched and sometimes had handles. A psaltery bow kind of looks some...
All Part of the Magic! A conductor has many jobs, one of which is expressing her own artistic interpretation of the music to the performers. She knows the composer, his life story, the impetus for...
Dance Music Particularly traditional western dance music. One thing that becomes pretty clear when you're hearing a set of tunes played for dancing, at least in the British-American tradition, is...
