Having not attended last week due to having a random bout of shingles, I wasn't sure what the current theme was. I knew that last week, Anthony said we'd be discussing our projects, and that's how this lesson started. It was a depleated class, although Mandy Ross was visiting because she had the necessary qualifications for using the power tools. Anthony asked if we'd discussed everyone's project, and I said I was away. So everyone gathered around the table in the middle and all looked at me. Thankfully, leaving home I'd made a on-the-spot decision to take with me a book containing some plans that I might use. So I got these out and decsribed that I'd like to make a psaltery (not a zither as anthony kept saying - and definitely not a zimmer as he said once). Both Anthony and Mandy were excited about the prospect, as they'd not help make one before. I'm actually excited now, because prior to that moment I hadn't been at all convinced doing it was possible. Having talked it through with them, I think it will be. Although Anthony and chaps are taking a trip to Somerset to pick up wood, I think I will investigate sources of instrument wood, particularly if I want to do this more often. To that end I may go and talk to Robin Greenwood, the luthier at Stapehill Abbey (at least, I hope he's still there). The rest of the class was spent writing out a parts-list of wood, and a project-plan. I actually didn't get that far, because I was too busy reading the book in which the plans came, which was describing different woods and construction methods.