Fellow lyre players, I'm looking for a little help on making a bow. I've been using a violin bow on my jouhikko, (which was made by a friend and actually is...
Here's a brief treatise on a fast and simple short bow which I found on the web. Also a few pix of my bow, with the addition of a frog to ad a little more...
OOPS wrong bow. That's a full sized fiddle bow I made by taking a piece of doweling and shaping it with a belt sander. I got lucky and it hasn't cracked yet. ...
Thank you so much for finding this! I hadn't thought of cutting it out - I thought I'd have to get a sapling and bend it. So tell me about this "frog" - it...
Hello, I'm sort of delurking to ask a question or two. I've made my first two lyres, dimensionally based on the trosinger (sp?.), but am calling them "Celtic...
Hi, I hope this isn't too off-topic, but I came across a video of some African women singing to the accompaniment of an enanga (zither) in preparation for a...
... Hi Roger, I'm not an expert but my feeling is that although the technique of drawing hot metal through a hole to create wire might have been known many...
I don't think there would be a historical justification before perhaps the late 14th century for European wire-strung instruments. Wire strung instruments...
Hi Chris, It's interesting you mentioned silk, because even modern Chinese instruments like the guqin were traditionally strung with silk, which has been known...
Interesting Tim! Thank you. Kind of nice to see some anthropological-type views of zither-lyre instruments. Kristen ... From: Tim <vikingtimbo650@...> ...
Hi, Tim and Roger. Tim, wire is drawn cold, not hot. The archaeometallurgists argue about the invention of wire drawing - it is pretty simple, I do it at home,...
Hi Chris, there are historical references for wire strings in the Gaelic world hundreds of years earlier than that. Also, I have seen non-drawn wire (made by...
... Hi Simon, ... Thanks for that info, I'm not a metalworker myself. But as you say there are huge quantities of gold and silver wire form the Iron Age. ... ...
... Hi Simon, ... Yeah it's great! African 'nangas' or 'enangas' don't really seem to have a proper soundboard, and playing the instrument with it resting on,...
... Hi Kristen, ... Glad you enjoyed it! I'm not sure if I've posted this particular video before, but it's a very old Russian documentary about the Mansi...
Hi Simon, Tim & Roger Just a note; I read some time ago (I can probably find the source, I think it was in one of the archeological reports from Novgorod)...
The psaltery you refer to is the Slovisha Gusli, which, it has been theorized, may have been strung with red brass which would have some iron content and some...
I got out the lyre tonight and tried an experiment per Tim's suggestion. My current strap setup is a 1/2" silk band tied around the arms of the lyre,...
... Hi Jamie, Thanks very much for the Graeme Lawson thing. It doesn't sound too different to what I do. I'll have to get on with making a video and then...
On page #24 of the Lithuanian article (attached to this email) there are 9 silhouettes of lyre bodies. It’s difficult to see them in the photographs included...
... Hi Scot, The nine silhouettes are all taken from different sources of evidence, but one of them is in fact the remains of the wooden lyre from Kravik which...
Hi, I can't remember if anything about this find from northern France (in other words Gaul) has been discussed here, but since it's Celtic and dates to around...
Simple things...check that your date is right on your bios.. Boot up and press F12 or the delete key to enter the bios.. Just make sure the date is set...
I have had success with loading pictures. I ended up with three of my celtic lyre rather than one composite picture. The combined file I guess was in question....
Very nice indeed. As a big fan of not making exact copies of an object, instead making something that makes sense and has your own personal touch, I greatly...
