Dear DeeDee, Thank you writing this lovely piece of music on Psalm 139. Inspired and inspiring. Thank you very much. Sincerely, Larry Clarence Lewis London, Ontario, Canada.
A truly wonderful psalm. A number of years ago the children in my Sunday School class drew round their hands and feet and wrote how fearfully and wonderful I am made. Your music playing is a very special God given gift.. Thank you for sharing it.
That was so beautiful! I read Psalm 139 as I listened to you play the song; that is a psalm that I have always especially liked. The harp is especially fitting for it, as David- the writer (as you know) of that and many other psalms- was a harpist, also! Maybe he, too, put music to this passage. Thanks for sharing that beautiful piece.
@@deedeetibbits You’re welcome! The harp is such a beautiful and peaceful instrument, and it’s easy to think of David playing his small harp in the fields to calm the sheep he tended, or to soothe the angry and emotionally disturbed king Saul. I am not a professional like you, but I’m an enthusiastic/active amateur who loves various instruments, and amongst other things, I have a 22-string harp that I really enjoy playing. I used to bring it to play when I did some visiting for Hospice, and I found that it had a calming effect on the people I played for. I really enjoy all your posts with the various instruments that you play! :)
I met you at Bobs music shop a few years ago then I saw you at VGs a few weeks ago and almost said hello but I figured you probably wouldn't remember me so I didn't. But a few days later I turned on RU-vid and one of your videos was on my recommended list. Small world haha. Nice channel and very beautiful music. Thanks for sharing. Thumbs up!
@@deedeetibbits Hey, don't feel bad, even the publishers of books by NASA rocket scientists make mistakes, recently got a book where the publisher misspelled 'Future' on the book spine as 'Furute'. 🤔🤣
I once heard in a monastery how the sung psalms were accompanied by a plucked instrument, a psaltery or a mixture of psaltery and zither. In any case, it was rectangular and was plucked with the fingers. It sounded heavenly! 😊 This is a psaltery: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-scpIoKz0S3c.htmlsi=u0eFhLIpRebPn5Zh
Wonder how many people realize our English word psalm has its origin in the Greek word psalmos in the Greek Old Testament, the Septuagint (this keyboard is not Greek letters!) and way back when the word meant a performance on a stringed instrument. From Greek it became Latin psalmus; then Old French psaume; then Anglian salm; West Saxon sealm; Old English psealm; and now psalm as we know it in modern English.
There is also the stringed instrument "psaltery" (German: "Psalter" / "Psalterium"). It appears in the German hymnal in the song "Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren" ("Praise the Lord, the mighty King of Honour"): "(...) Kommet zuhauf, Psalter und Harfe, wacht auf, lasset den Lobgesang hören!" ("(...) Come in droves, psaltery and harp, wake up, let the song of praise be heard!")
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