To tell you the truth, I thought this site had gone away a year ago. Just shows that nothing is ever truly lost.
Anyway, I am now in Eugene, Oregon, setting up a new life. As part of that new life, I have started a new business. Similar instruments, some of them, and entirely different ones, as well.
OK, that didn't make sense, even to me, and I wrote it. Let's try it again. The psalterium harps are there, true enough, including the plank harps, and the spirit harps. But I have spent part of my recovery time doing a lot of research into the instruments brought into the British Isles and what are now France, Poland, and Western Russia by the pre-Viking Norse. So a series of bowed and strummed instruments are coming into being. Even an affordable "Viking-Rus Bowed Lyre" which may easily be the ancestor of the Welsh Crwth.
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Click here: to see the last of the Eltonbury Music site. (There's still a lot of nice content left.) Then click here to see Psalt of the Earth. Along with the instruments, you will find a wealth of other goodies. I think you'll like it. Oh, yes. One other thing Along with my activities as a maker of instruments, I have also become involved in publishing. For THOSE activities, arguably more respectable, yet somehow just as much fun, click here. That's about it for the moment, folks. More to follow. A blessing upon your day. Mike Carter
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