Wing Psaltery #1
"The Gargoyle"

Original design based on historical instruments. It is maple, recycled Douglas fir, bound with black walnut and maple accents, and a soundhole carving of maple.

Examples of this style of psaltery have been discovered in Babylonian, Asyrian, and Egyptian excavations that date around to 1000 years B.C. Mine is based on more current instruments that date from the Medieval period, around 1300 A.D. This one is a "table-top" instrument with a maple stand with hand-carved "feet." It has 18 single steel strings.

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