Author Topic: OT: Guess the picture (Read 6565 times)

krissel · « **Reply #15 on:** November 05, 2003, 12:55:49 AM »

Part of a guitar? or similar instrument?

CyberPet · « **Reply #16 on:** November 05, 2003, 02:16:47 AM »

A Zither?

dolphin · « **Reply #17 on:** November 05, 2003, 06:34:42 AM »

Looks like a slightly burnt piece of styrofoam.

jepinto · « **Reply #18 on:** November 05, 2003, 06:51:55 AM »

Dulcimer hammer?

Audone · « **Reply #19 on:** November 05, 2003, 08:35:20 AM »

Slab of bacon, rind on?

taliesin · « **Reply #20 on:** November 05, 2003, 09:40:35 AM »

Think Jennie's close but doesn't look like any hammer or damper I've seen.
More like something laid across the strings.
Some kind of bow?

Diana · « **Reply #21 on:** November 05, 2003, 11:01:35 AM »

How close does close have to be before I confirm?..

There are several answers walking around the edges of the one answer, but I don't want to spoil it if people are still guessing

edit for typo
see ya

Gary S · « **Reply #22 on:** November 05, 2003, 11:11:25 AM »

I think it's Dulcimer like Jennie said.

CyberPet · « **Reply #23 on:** November 05, 2003, 12:34:34 PM »

Piano?

gapstr · « **Reply #24 on:** November 05, 2003, 03:16:53 PM »

It looks like a paired-string instrument, but all the strings look to be the same diameter, so it's not a 12-string guitar. I think lutes have five string pairs, but I don't know if they are all the same diameter. Hammer dulcimers have single strings that double back, creating an effective double string. But neither lutes nor hammer dulcimers are bowed, I think. Some viols have paired strings, but I think their strings are of different diameters.

Just thinking out loud, as it were. I'm probably no closer here than I was with the burnt wire and the cobwebs.

A. G.

gapstr · « **Reply #25 on:** November 06, 2003, 09:15:11 AM »

A harp?

A. G.

Diana · « **Reply #26 on:** November 06, 2003, 06:25:30 PM »

Taliesin Wins!

I figured there would be some mountain folks on the board who would guess it right off. There were several people who were getting really close, but Taliesin was the first to say Bow.

The main part of the picture is the butt-end of a bow...a special bow for the "bowed psaltry"

It's a lovely instrument having the full chromatic scale (sharps and flats played on the left side (downside in the picture)). The strings are played between the metal posts. The three dark spots between posts you see on the linked picture are C, G and C. High notes at the wide end and getting lower nearing the point. Very pretty violinish sound.

OK Taliesin...your turn..

see ya,

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