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  • Category: Instruments
  • Founded: Nov 29, 2006
  • Language: English
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1485 Kazimierz Verkmastare
cnogy Send Email
Mar 2, 2009
12:26 am
Our plans for this past weekend got sidetracked several weeks ago when we found out that Benjamin Bagby would be performing Beowulf in Kansas City (just a 4...
1486 J Coffman
emmrikus Send Email
Mar 2, 2009
12:58 am
Congrats Chris and girls, Sounds like a dream come true for craftsmen of any age. Emmerich...
1487 LM
lavransrm Send Email
Mar 2, 2009
1:27 am
Your report on Benjamin and his generosity of spirit reflects my own experiences. After seeing him do Beowulf for the first time about ten years ago, I decided...
1488 Kazimierz Verkmastare
cnogy Send Email
Mar 2, 2009
3:22 am
It is OK, occasionally, to realize that just cash on the ledger sheets, while enough to get by on, is really underpayment, and that providing a little bit...
1489 nnaeve Send Email Mar 2, 2009
4:07 am
Your story moved me to tears. Unfortunately I'm too wrapped up in my own Beowulf to comment further...but thanks! Niki ... sheets, while enough to get by on,...
1490 LM
lavransrm Send Email
Mar 2, 2009
4:09 am
BTW: The dvd is available on amazon.com Larry M Beowulf (2006)*Starring:* Benjamin ...
1491 Kazimierz Verkmastare
cnogy Send Email
Mar 2, 2009
1:15 pm
I copied it to a thumb drive that I have with me at all times, I watch it regularly - it is the best Beowulf I think I have ever seen. And amazing enough, no...
1492 michael king
michaeljking... Send Email
Mar 2, 2009
1:34 pm
What a wonderful story Chris,  sounds like a really fantastic day,   Aside from 'that' movie version there was a cartoon of beowulf that had Dr Graeme...
1493 simon@...
simonchadwick Send Email
Mar 2, 2009
2:18 pm
Michael, I remember that I think, about 10 years ago, done by Welsh Channel 4? By a team of Russian animators, broadcast at Xmas. I videotaped it but the tape...
1494 michael king
michaeljking... Send Email
Mar 2, 2009
2:45 pm
Hello Simon, You are right it was Welsh Channel 4,  a joint venture with Russia , that was what I needed to find it at amazon, http://tinyurl.com/aq7tga Its...
1495 Tim Caldwell
vikingtimbo Send Email
Mar 3, 2009
1:10 pm
... <michaeljking2007@...> wrote: Hey guys, Even I, (in backwards Australia) know what you're talking about! I've had that show on tape for _YEARS_: an amazing...
1496 LM
lavransrm Send Email
Mar 3, 2009
3:12 pm
While we're on the subject, don't forget John Gardner's excellent novel, "Grendel"... Lavrans...
1497 Yngona Desmond
yngona Send Email
Mar 4, 2009
1:36 am
Mike wrote [[I just uploaded photos of the construction process and end result of my new lyre.]] ** Great pics Mike! Its lovely! ... Yngona...
1498 Yngona Desmond
yngona Send Email
Mar 4, 2009
1:40 am
Chris wrote [[About halfway through the visit, he finally picked up the new Trossingen (he had no idea it was made for him) and started playing it. He spend...
1499 Mike Durling
vonneusohl Send Email
Mar 4, 2009
1:50 am
Thanks Yngona and thanks to everybody else who commented. I've been having a lot of fun playing around with it, although the "music" can best be described as...
1500 L.M.
lavransrm Send Email
Mar 4, 2009
2:16 am
It's always great to see a set of photos like this and compare ideas. Thanks for sharing this with us. I too discovered the advantage of using a large piece...
1501 Mike Durling
vonneusohl Send Email
Mar 4, 2009
2:37 am
Hey Larry, Actually you were the source of the plexiglass idea. I got that from the PDF that you posted in the archives here. Like I said, most of the ideas...
1502 LM
lavransrm Send Email
Mar 4, 2009
3:53 am
No wonder it looked familiar! ;=)> Larry...
1503 Yngona Desmond
yngona Send Email
Mar 9, 2009
9:24 pm
Is it: -liar, -leer-a, -lair-a, -lah-ra or some other? ... Yngona...
1504 sca_bard@...
sca_bard Send Email
Mar 9, 2009
9:36 pm
According to Mirriam-Webster: Pronunciation: \ˈlī(-ə)r\ There's a WAV file of someone saying the word at: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lyre ...
1505 Doug Saball
dr_douglittle Send Email
Mar 9, 2009
9:47 pm
When I pluck mine it sounds more like a harp - never hear it make a sound like this URL (LOL ;-P I just has too)..   Doug ... From: sca_bard@......
1506 michaeljking2007
michaeljking... Send Email
Mar 9, 2009
9:58 pm
lyre, rhyming with fire as much as liar the original name hearpe is much nicer, but too confusing since it became associated primarily with a triangular...
1507 LM
lavransrm Send Email
Mar 10, 2009
12:41 am
LI-er Sort of Lavrans...
1508 Tim Caldwell
vikingtimbo Send Email
Mar 10, 2009
2:32 pm
... Hi all, ... English 'lyre' is from ancient Greek /lyra/, which referred to a bowl lyre. Bowl lyres have a round soundbox and a 'soundboard&#39; typically made...
1509 simon@...
simonchadwick Send Email
Mar 10, 2009
4:30 pm
Great stuff Tim 2 little flies to stick in your ointment though... In Latin they would surely write Cithara with a C... This is a wholely unsatisfactory word...
1510 Yngona Desmond
yngona Send Email
Mar 11, 2009
2:34 pm
Good posts from Michael, Tim and Simon! Keep it up .. please .. because this is the direction I was wanting to go in. To learn more about such matters. ...
1511 Tim Caldwell
vikingtimbo Send Email
Mar 11, 2009
2:49 pm
... Hi Simon, You made some interesting points. ... True mate, but these days I think the spelling 'kithara&#39; is more usual. And so translations of the...
1512 Jan-Ellen Harriman
jan4ellen Send Email
Mar 12, 2009
11:27 am
Hi Michael & all, I'm working on an essay on construction of different lyres and need to find a description of the Cologne/St. Severin's lyre. Is there an...
1513 Roger Muma
mumaharps Send Email
Mar 13, 2009
6:41 pm
Hi, I'm new to the group. Just wondering if anyone has tried other sound board materials for saxon lyres, particularly sitca spruce... Coming from harp making...
1514 LM
lavransrm Send Email
Mar 13, 2009
9:24 pm
I have used spruce for some of my other instrument projects- a fiddle, a talharpa and a citole- and I'm considering a spruce sound board for a lyre. I had to...
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