The Ancient Greek Sambuca (Archaic Arched Harp)

This video presentation features an improvisation in the intense ancient Greek Dorian Mode, on a replica ancient Greek Sambuca : an archaic arched harp featuring a skin soundboard stretched over a tortoise shell resonator. An ancient Greek naval siege engine was also called the Sambuca, due to it's resemblance to the original ancient Greek harp-like musical instrument: the engine was built upon two ships lashed together and consisted of towers between which an assault bridge was hoisted. The ropes lashed b