First, I'm sitting here listening to/watching Benjamin Bagby's Beowulf and thought I'd share with those who are trying to discern the "secret tuning," LOL. I...
Hi! Here's what I got in a letter from Bagby some years back. I've seen him do Beowulf three times, and I'm pretty sure that he uses this tuning. "I am using...
... I usually tune mine to Hucbald's description: c d e f g a. Although blocking and strumming is good, I actually prefer to pluck away and for folks like me...
Ok, feeling silly - I paused the frame and I now see all six strings. The lighting on the video was misguiding me. Or so I'll tell anyone who asks. I'm using...
- Use different tempos. Slow, walking, fast sound different. - Use different rhythmic modes. I will sometimes force myself to use (mainly) a repeating...
Lack of compositional skills? Not really- you are right that that tuning does limit one's choices, though. I did test recordings of 5 different old Norse...
All excellent ideas- I heartily concur. With Old Norse poetry, everything tends to sound like a march in 4/4 time. If one can play a simple harp, it opens up...
You know, you are limited. Even the finest composer can do only so much with a single instrument with 6 fixed tones. But while you are watching Bagby,...
Chris: Your observations are quite astute and very useful. You also seem to agree that the a minor pentatonic is a marvelous scale, once you get the hang of ...
I do believe that the pagan (old definition - rural) tunings for lyres open up a much richer set of opportunities for expressing emotions - since emotions are...
Chris, You crack me up. You really are a renaissance man (medieval) but renaissance none the less LCDR Bennett Solberg, Ph.D., FACHE, CDFM Assistant...
I have been toying with the cross-piece a bit on a few of my lyres, and the best I can figure for it's use is that it is a nut used to keep all the strings on...
... <sca_bard@...> wrote: Hi Niki, jamie, and all, Lots of great tips! Other ways of increasing the variety of sounds you can produce are: 1) Varying...
... <kaz@...> wrote: Hi Chris, ... agility on the strings increases dramatically when the strings are very even with one another. For block-and-strum it is...
Well, incredibly uneven might be a technically appropriate description, but less than 1/8 inch overall variation at the bridge would be easily ajdusted by...
Thanks The ice hit us pretty hard - shut me down completely for over a week, and today and tomorrow are dedicated to bringing the trees off the house. (for...
3 quick thoughts to add: You can combine strumming and plucking. You can tune the 6th string to a high Do an octave above the low do. 1-2-3-4-5-8. You be...
... <kaz@...> wrote: Hi Chris, Sorry to hear about your weather. We have the opposite problem - three consecutive days last week with maximums between 43 and...
Hi,  Just came out of lurk mode to comment on the two messages below. Wow...your words make sad, but beautiful prose. Makes me want to take pen to paper...
Yes I have several friends that have been with out power for quite a while. I hope things improve soon. It was -12 degrees F as I passed by the bank this...
Thank you ALL so very much for helpful and insightful comments...I've been skimming over them when i read my email, then hitting the lyre at night, hoping the...
... <dr_douglittle@...> wrote: Hi Rowynn, ... Wow...your words make sad, but beautiful prose. Makes me want to take pen to paper and write about people and...
Hi all, Suppose you had two different sets of strings, each of different materials, and you wanted to be able to easily swap back and forth between them on the...
Hello Tim, Glad to hear you are safe! what a horrific summer. Re;stringing, with two sets of tailpieces and pegs using the Sutton hoo type of peg inserted from...
I've heard different things about strings. Since some folks claim that slackening the strings after playing will increase the playing life, it is quite...
I can't see a problem with synthetic strings - but wire and gut might become troublesome. I still like the pins from behind setup, which makes it harder to...
Hi Guys, The first attempt was to say the least... horrible, but I learnt from my mistakes. I am putting the finishing touches on 4 bridges and 3 tuning key....
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