Bowed Psaltery Instructional Materials

Jan & John Hagerman
It's Easy to Play the Bowed Psaltery
Video - $40.00

Featured on numerous television and cable programs, recording artists Jan and John Hagerman lead you from beginning through advanced psaltery playing techniques as well as how to care for and maintain your instrument. Covers how to hold your instrument and bow, basic bowing techniques, what to do if you don’t read music, how to change a string, playing with two bows, playing with other instruments, and more. Free instructional booklet included.

Donna Missigman
Beginning Bowed Psaltery
Book - $15.00
 
Featuring over 45 familiar tunes presented in melody line only format for beginners, as well as in a more advanced arrangement for players using two bows. Includes helpful advice about tuning, bowing, and transposing to give you the skill you need to play bowed psaltery.

Gregg Schneeman
The Bowed Psaltery
Video - $30.00
An instructional video teaching tuning, scales and slides, simple one, two and three bow tunes and improvisation. Tunes and techniques are taught from beginner to the advanced level. Songs include Beauty in Tears, GreenSleeves, Orange Rogue, Ashgrove and Devil's Dream.
Kendra Ward Bence
The Bowed Psaltery Handbook
Book - $21.00

A complete guide for learning to play the Bowed Psaltery!
Including: History of the Bowed Psaltery; Tips on Playing; Playing Basic Melodies; Accompanying Other Insturments; And Much More!
Melodye Whatley & Ingrid Skinner
The Psimple Psaltery Instruction Book: How to Play the Bowed Psaltery
Book with CD - $25.00

This book begins with simple tunes and works up to rounds and harmonies. This book contains the following chapters: Getting Acquainted with Your BP, Music Theory 101, A Round and Around, Simple Harmonies, More Harmony, Bowing Techniques, Strings & Things and Beyond the Basics. Tunes include: All the Pretty Little Horses; Amazing Grace; Aura Lee; Down by the Sally Gardens; Frere Jacques; Jesus Loves Me; Jingle Bells; Kum-ba-yah; Largo; Long, Long Ago; Michael, Row the Boat Ashore; Music Alone Shall Live; O Come, O Come Emanuel; Ode to Joy; Rose; The Willow Tree; Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star; Yankee Doodle
Olde Fashioned Love Songs
Book - $15.00
A collection of tunes for the bowed psaltery and other simle instruments. Songs include Dasy Bell, Beautiful Dreamer, Red is the Ros, and many more.