Photo by Robert Batey
Ringing Strings Bowed Psalteries
handcrafted by Rick Long
Clinton, Tennessee
(865) 660-4026
ricklong@ringingstrings.com
Please use the word "psaltery" in the subject of your e-mail. Also include a phone number as a second way for me to contact you.
Copyright Ringing Strings Music 2004-2010 All Rights Reserved
2-16-2010
Got time to breathe, Got time for music!
Brisco Darling
Andy Griffith Show
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
The Opera 1852
Music..... is made particularly and principally to charm the spirit and the ear, and to enable us to pass our lives with a little sweetness amidst all the bitterness that we encounter here.
Marin Mersenne (1588-1648)
Harmonie universelle, 1636
The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.
Nadia Boulanger (1887-1974)
Now lets try "Slimy River Bottom", and this time make it purdy!
Brisco Darling
Oh Paw, that one makes me cry.
Charlene Darling
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden (1907-73)
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
Jules Combarieu (1859-1916)
Music is the universal language of mankind.
Christopher North (1785-1854)
