(WBIR-Clinton) An instrument that was probably invented in the 1920s in Germany or Austria can be heard here in East Tennessee. The sweet sound of a bowed psaltery convinced Rick Long to learn to play ...

Nearly 50 performers from across the United States gathered Sunday at Tamarack to perform in the eighth annual Bowed Psaltery Symphony. Many of the instruments bowed on stage were made right at ...

Eddie Cox looked up from his old Gibson guitar, its smooth finish weathered but still shining, to speak to the 40 or so people in front of him beneath the large shed on Saturday. “I woke up and kissed ...

Greg and Tish Westman are luthiers based in Beckley, W. Va., who play traditional music on the bowed Psaltery, a stringed instrument kin to the dulcimer that comes in 9-, 25-, 32- and 37-note versions ...

Mexican instrumentalist Alejandra Barrientos began to play the psaltery when she was just five. At the time she lived with her family in Mexico city where she attended a special school with an all ...