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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
... <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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
... Hi all, ... English 'lyre' is from ancient Greek /lyra/, which referred to a bowl lyre. Bowl lyres have a round soundbox and a 'soundboard' typically made...
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...
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. ...
... Hi Simon, You made some interesting points. ... True mate, but these days I think the spelling 'kithara' is more usual. And so translations of the...
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...
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...
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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