Hildegard von Bingen: Caritas abundat in omnia - Petter Dyndahl, gittern and psaltery

Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) was taught to play the then fashionable psaltery when she entered the Benedictine monastery at Disibodenberg as a young girl in the early 12th century. The European gittern was first documented in iconographic sources from the 13th century and became an important and popular instrument in the 14th and 15th centuries. The instruments played in the video are a medieval psaltery built by Paul Baker based on an illustration in the 13th-century manuscript Cantigas de Santa Maria, and a 5-course gittern after Hans Oth, built by Lauri Niskanen. In addition, I use a digital surpeti (Indian shruti box) for the drone and a few zills (finger cymbals), as well as a generous amount of reverb, to create the sonic illusion of a medieval monastery. You may also be interested in these playlists:    • Medieval music played on plucked instruments      • Distant echoes of plucked string instrumen...      • Closer echoes of plucked string instrument...   #earlymusic #medievalmusic #hildegardvonbingen #gittern #psaltery