Here are some examples of psalteries that others have built following the plans (more or less) found on this website. Let them be an encouragement to you, that building a musical instrument—a psimple psaltery—is not out of your grasp!
If you’ve made a bowed psaltery from the plans listed on this website, and would like to share your results with others and add to this gallery, please contact me and I’ll try and add your work to this page.
(For even more ideas, you can take a look at my own personal psaltery gallery of instruments I made under the moniker Phantasy Psalteries.)
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Charles Sigler (2007) |
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Lynn Smallwood (2008) |
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Gordon Brown (2008) |
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Paul Cole (2008) |
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Dave Owen (2008) |
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Gregory Trickey (2009) |
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Bill Allman (2009) |
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Robert Killen (2009) |
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Dick Willitts (2009) |
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Sunniva Wormsen (2010) |
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| Pandora Hart (2011) | |
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| Richard Arnold (2011) | |
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| Rebecca (and Fritz) Dowe (2011) | |
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Bill Yoder (2012) |
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Robert A. Wright II (2012) |
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DeeAnn (with Pandora Hart) (2012) |
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David Gstalder (2013) |
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David Waechter (2014) |
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Caleb Bennett (2016) |
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Michael Wendt (2020) |
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Casey Brooks (2025) Casey provided the following information. Frame: Rosewood; Soundboard: Quartersawn Mahogany; Back: Book-matched Zebrawood; Trim: Bloodwood; Bow: Mahogany. |
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Very nice work. I’d like to know more about the adjustable bow on DeeAnn‘s or the Pandora Hart Psaltery.
I was able to dig up this old picture of it:
I don’t have any other details, but I do recall she did put a bit of thought into it’s design, and you can see in the linked picture it’s sitting beside a violin bow for comparison.