Cythara

The Anglo-Scottish duo Cythara took its name from your Latin word which means to try out a stringed instrument, that was often utilized to decribe the harp and other similar instruments. Jennifer Crook (Celtic harp, cent whistle) was a graduate of Middlesex University or college, England, and it is a tuned multi-instrumentalist, with history in harp, piano, flute, tone of voice, and acoustic guitar. MacLaine Colston (hammered dulcimer, acoustic guitar, bodhran) first used the hammered dulcimer beneath the inspiration of the American virtuoso, Jim Couza, with whom he later on toured and documented an recording. Crook and MacLaine started playing collectively as Cythara in 1992, and earning numerous folk contests, before documenting their debut recording late that yr. Their sound is definitely all acoustic, and generally centers around playing the contrasting textures from the harp as well as the hammered dulcimer off against one another, and their repertory is made around traditional folk materials, mostly British, Scottish, Irish, and Breton.