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• n  an ancient stringed instrument similar to the lyre or zither but having a trapezoidal sounding board under the strings

• Beers's grandfather taught him to play the psaltery, but his real ambition was to be a concert violinist.
• In addition to the fiddle, guitar, dulcimer and psaltery, the Beerses work the "limberjacks" (jointed wooden blocks that are clapped together like castanets, popular in colonial .
• But the demand for psaltery players and country fiddlers was not exactly booming.

News & Articles

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• ‘Sweet Folk’ music gathering at MECC March 15
  BIG STONE GAP — Sweet sounds will drift across the campus of Mountain Empire Community College in March, and not just because the earliest birds of spring would be arriving.MECC will host the 2014 Sweet Folk Instruments Gathering from 9 a.m. through 9 p.m. on March 15. The second annual gathering will introduce and promote the autoharp, hammered and lap dulcimers, folk harp, psaltery, and folk ...
  Jan. 27, 2014 - Kingsport Times-News