This psaltery design is based on historical examples.

Examples of this psaltey style have been discovered in Babylonian, Asyrian, and Egyptian excavations that date back over 1000 years B.C. My wing psalteries are based on Medieval instruments from around 1100-1400 A.D. The one pictured is made from redwood salvaged from a 125-year-old Santa Cruz Victorian house that was undergoing extensive remodelling, and from birch salvaged from a dead tree cut down at the Santa Cruz Art League. It is a little over 2 octaves with 17 steel strings.

It is 21" x 7 1/2" x 2". Body depth is approximately 1 3/4".

These go fast, and I try to have one or two available. I make these primarily from salvaged woods, so they can vary.

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