Hello all

This is a very cool picture of lyre players indeed, but I am
concerned about the conclusions we are drawing here. My main issue is
that anyone who says it 'just works' as a playing style seems to be
ignoring that the index and fourth fingers poke right through the
strings and curl rouns on this side of them. Rather diferent from
simply plucking with both hands!

The two strange lyres - this is in my opinion merely artistic
drift... look at a stylised guinness logo or perhaps the Musicians
Union logo to see this kind of thing still happening...

Simon


On 30 Jun 2009, at 06:47, wernerbuchin wrote:

>> The image from Bamberg is absolutely fantastic!
> Tim
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> Hallo Tim,
> thank you very much for your long response to "playing-technique".
> Yes, this was my feeling too, when i first saw this illustration on
> my computer.I had never ssen it before in any diskussion of the
> Lyre-playing-technique (Greame Lawson, Barbara Theune-Großkopf,
> Dieter Bischop...).
> The illustration is published in "wiki-commons":
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
> File:BambergApocalypseFolio038vAngelWith7Plagues.JPG
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> Your Questions about the dating of the two "strange lyres":
> The "Aal"(Obboell)-Lyre is dated in the 12th century (King Waldemar).
> The Montpellier-Lyre is dated in the 8th century.
> This illustration is also published in "wiki-commons":
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Psaultier_Montpellier_MS-
> H409_David.jpg
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> Best wishes
> Werner
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