Welcome to Unboxing Instruments, exploring history and sound with Niccolo Seligmann's collection of 50 musical instruments! Today's Episode: The Icelandic Langspil Built by Ken Koons, 2013 Like the scheitholt (see episode 1 if you need a reminder!) the Icelandic langspil is a bowed drone zither, and possibly one of the ancestors of the Appalachian mountain dulcimer. Only one of the three metal strings is a “melody string,“ with a chromatic fretboard underneath allowing me to play in
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