Evening, Lyre players. Charlie and Ann Heymann will be teaching and performing next weekend in Portland, Oregon. Charlie will be playing lyre(strummed and...
OK, let's try this another way. The question is - what is the "first" string on a jouhikko? In a set of guitar strings the packets are labeled: E-1st, B-2nd,...
Totally clear to me this way! Thanks. It seems I'm backwards with the numbers, but had come to the correct conclusion about which string should be higher....
... Hi guys, You know, I actually didn't fully appreciate the significance of the instrument when I hurriedly posted last night. It was a nightmare finding...
Well put. Except that all the evidence I've seen indicates that a Jouhikko is strung the opposite of a guitar or violin. It's more like a dulcimer in that the...
One of the things that confuses me is the relationship between crwth and jouhikko; because they are strung in opposite directions. Other than they they seem...
... Hi Simon, My guess would be that they both evolved quite independently from one other. The similarities between them would come from their derivation from...
Oh, dear! Blah hah! Thankfully they're not MY cats and they're rid of me...for a time being, mwah hah hah. ... [Anglo_Saxon_Lyres] Re: Sibelius Academy...
Hello everybody, has anybody seen an Instrument like this? http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Piero_di_Cosimo_041.jpg How is it called? Any Literature? ...
Ah the famous six-stringed bagpipes. We're not meant to discuss them on here as they make the list owners upset. However I can tell you that the Louvre has a...
Obviously fantasy. However, I don't think that should stop anybody from trying to build one. Or the other. Was there ever really such a thing as a tromba...
Of course there is such a thing as a tromba marina! There are lots of later ones in museums (in Germany anyway) and lots of medieval iconography as well. But ...
... Simon, Ssssshhhhh! It's meant to be a secret! If you're not careful you'll have us all banned from our order - the "Sacred Order of Musical Idiots". On...
Hi, I'm glad my lyre doesn't look (or sound) like this one - but each to his own I suppose. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef1qwaiFeek Where do they get French...
Hi, I found a couple more videos of people playing the sangkvyltap, but they're nowhere near as good as those old blokes in the link in my earlier post: ...
HAHAHA, I was just joking with some folks at an event as I was demoing a lyre that soon it would be the age of the heavy metal lyre! All it would take is metal...
Using a stock guitar pickup makes the strings very far apart at the bridge. He'd be better winding his own pickups so as to set them very close together....
... Now I want to put a pickup on my lyre and see what happens when I run it through various effects... I'm not fond of the plain sound of that one though....
The first version of my 10 string kantele playing guide on youtube has me playing my own modern electric Kantele, not very different from the (from 3.06 in a...
This guy is pretty clever though. Making "musical instruments" out of odds and ends. bric-à-brac = odds and ends, bric-à-couac = collection of bad notes...
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