Round 8: Tossup 9

The festival “[these instruments] Alive” descends from an “Assembly” that coincided with a 1792 Bastille Day celebration. Pieces that a player of this instrument dedicated to patrons like Madame Maxwell were posthumously given the title “planxty.” L-shaped pins in early versions of this instrument were said to make them “bray.” A nearly 19-minute medley closes the 1972 album Renaissance of [this instrument], which fuses traditional music with rock and is by the Breton musician (*) Alan Stivell. A choral style named for this instrument uses shape-note notation. The blind virtuoso Turlough (10[1]-5[1])(“TURR-lock”) O’Carolan played the cláirseach (10[1])(“CLAHR-shuck”), a Celtic (-5[1])form of this instrument. This instrument’s “sacred” form names an American choral tradition. For 10 points, Ireland’s coat of arms features what instrument with 47 strings? ■END■ (10[2])

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