This episode of the Woodwright shop showcases the 10th/11th century toolchest found in the 1930s, some interesting tools and techniques that I thought would...
Michael thanks for this If the CAT in Machynllyth still run their blacksmithing course I would highly recommend it, they have bursaries available and it is not...
Hello all, I just joined a few minutes ago :-D My name is Michael and when I saw Michael King's youtube videos I just had to make a lyre for myself! My first...
I agree I would really like one of these but only seem to get makers of Lyers!... Mine is sitting in the corner itching to be played and I have seemed to...
I know that there would be a best place for my bridge, but I had an "aha!" moment this eventing that made it very obvious. I was playing with a tuning fork...
Hello Michael, There are lots of variables with planing the top, you need to keep it scientific to build up an understanding from it that you can use. For...
Yes I suppose it was!... I just am a little stumped as to HOW to play my Lyre... Being musicaly minded but not actually a musician.... Is that what you meant...
Hello! In answer to the soundpost question, there are a couple of issues. I'm primarily a fiddler (playing both medieval and modern fiddles), so have some...
Oh dear... I did get that wrong... I thought a sound post was something to listen to ah well... If there is anyone out there who is able to 'post some sounds'...
Hi Amanda and Michael in Albuquerque, A soundpost is a structural part of a modern violin. It is a piece of wood placed between the soundboard and the back of...
Hi all, My title is actually tongue in cheek - the US sees every foreign black/ blackish guy with a gun or bomb as a "terrorist". But seriously, this is an...
Hello Michael, I guess to be accurate I should have said I found three sweet spots on my soundboard for the particular frequency of the tuning fork :-D the...
Hi Amanda, I'm hoping to do just this in the near future, once my new computer arrives. (The ancient thing I'm on now is not recording sound very well/at...
Wow Tim, actually not. The US news media, for its own reasons, wants to portray the US as seeing " every foreign black/ blackish guy with a gun or bomb as a...
... Hi Gary, I'm not quite sure what you mean, but I probably shouldn't have made a political reference - my 'bad'. My country gets dragged into all of...
Hello! Not personally offended by any political references (even as an American - believe me, we don't all agree with our politicians). But as a random...
Dear Paul, I live in East Germany and I have been performing at medieval festivals in East and West Germany for the last 15 years. It is indeed interesting -...
Well my first lyre is done. I am very proud of it, but I also see many, many ways I need to do a better job on my second :-D I put the pic in my Carnright...
Hi, I put a sound post and a bass bar in my Sutton Hoo style Lyre. It seems to help the tone and bass resonance. It is not historically correct, but I was not...
