(06-15-2022, 07:11 PM)churchilllafemme Wrote: I listened to some old Bryan Bowers autoharp music today. I used to go to the Blue Moon tavern in Seattle 50 years ago to hear him playing traditional Irish/British folk music. Apparently he is still traveling around and performing. Here is an old video of him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z2OmJfZ6qI
We had his first album, "The View From Home", in the late '70s.
It was hard to believe that it was just one person playing all the parts in one take.
In a similar way, we saw this guy with his cymbalom on the street in San Francisco in '89.
The "bowhammer" finger extensions are an invention of his own. They have a strip of thin leather or something, coated with rosin. He can hit the strings like a hammered dulcimer, but when he pushes or draws them across the strings it gives a sustained note like a violin. Add thumb picks for strumming and a bass line.
It was mesmerizing.
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