Post by Dick Glasgow on Jun 30, 2007 19:12:11 GMT 1
The Salterio
David Kettlewell says about the term Salterio:
Simple Salterio
Various Salterio
Early Salterio in an old Painting
Marble Salterio
From the greek word 'psaltérion' (from 'psàllein' = to pluck).
In Italian, it reminds one of the verb "to jump", movement expressing natural joyfulness.
Group - il Salterio
In Italian, it reminds one of the verb "to jump", movement expressing natural joyfulness.
Group - il SalterioDavid Kettlewell says about the term Salterio:
Many writers have stated that 'the dulcimer is called salterio tedesco in Italy' and 'therefore it came from North of the Alps'.
It certainly seems that dulcimers came to Italy from the Hackbrett lands, but only from the evidence of the earliest recorded examples; note, however, that these are reliable in this context only if complete.
[2004:] Curt Sachs wrote his dulcimer 'history' from three sources; the 150 sources I found told a completely different tale; and maybe the next researcher will find 500 sources which give a different pattern again from mine.
The only original source for the expression salterio tedesco is Bonanni; all other writers, from Walther (1732, chap 3.) and Kastner (1852) to Sachs and Dräger & Wünsch, quote from another source; Walther acknowledged Bonanni as his source, and since the later authors were less generous in crediting their sources, we must presume them to have used the same ones.
'Salterio tedesco' - David Kettlewell
It certainly seems that dulcimers came to Italy from the Hackbrett lands, but only from the evidence of the earliest recorded examples; note, however, that these are reliable in this context only if complete.
[2004:] Curt Sachs wrote his dulcimer 'history' from three sources; the 150 sources I found told a completely different tale; and maybe the next researcher will find 500 sources which give a different pattern again from mine.
The only original source for the expression salterio tedesco is Bonanni; all other writers, from Walther (1732, chap 3.) and Kastner (1852) to Sachs and Dräger & Wünsch, quote from another source; Walther acknowledged Bonanni as his source, and since the later authors were less generous in crediting their sources, we must presume them to have used the same ones.
'Salterio tedesco' - David Kettlewell Simple Salterio Various SalterioThe salterio appears in the XIV and XV century in one remarkable variety of geometric shapes: triangular, square, rectangular, trapezial, with straight sides or also incurva you. The shape to trapeze rectangle often comes identified with an other name: in Italy as an example gun (deriving from the Arab is used qànun) and half gun, the last one in order to identify one halved instrument or more small regarding the previous one.
Salterio
Salterio Early Salterio in an old Painting Marble Salterio 
