Hello Craig, I have also done what you have done, scaled up the pictures, used other lyres(snape especially) to work things out. My reconstruction left out...
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LM
lavransrm
Sep 1, 2011 2:31 pm
I printed out the plans for the Trossingen, and have nearly finished it, sans decorative carving. I'll post up the results soon. Larry M On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at...
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pbutler@...
pcbutler1701
Sep 1, 2011 2:41 pm
... As a quick side-note to that, from the experience of my wife (who is an ancient historian and occasional archaeologist) no information, including even...
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Anglo_Saxon_Lyres@yah...
Sep 3, 2011 4:42 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the Anglo_Saxon_Lyres group. File :...
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Craig Fischer
craig_81...
Sep 4, 2011 8:23 am
Hi, this file had some observations about acoustic testing of two lyres and some response plots etc but I have temporarily taken it away again to make some...
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Anglo_Saxon_Lyres@yah...
Sep 5, 2011 4:29 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the Anglo_Saxon_Lyres group. File :...
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Craig Fischer
craig_81...
Sep 6, 2011 1:36 pm
Hi, that's a good photostudy of making your Lyre. The mention of catlines in connection with strings reminded to me to ask, firstly, if those nylgut strings...
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Craig Fischer
craig_81...
Sep 6, 2011 2:13 pm
I really enjoyed the sangkvyltap youtube video that was posted about a while ago. It is amazing to watch and amazing to think about the possible cultural...
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Kazimierz Verkmastare
cnogy
Sep 6, 2011 3:01 pm
I have made roped style horsehair strings for my jouhikko, my horsehair strung Welsh harp (Telyn Rawn) and my big gusli. None of them held tune or sounded as...
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LM
lavransrm
Sep 6, 2011 3:19 pm
The company I order from is called Boston Catlines; he does make catlines for various instruments. However, the nylgut lyre strings by Aquila are ...
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michael king
michaeljking...
Sep 6, 2011 3:32 pm
I agree with Chris about using the simple twisted horsehair, Â Â My Video showing how to make twisted horsehair strings for Bowed lyres here: ...
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Tim
vikingtimbo
Sep 6, 2011 6:07 pm
... Hi Craig, It was probably me that posted the sangkvyltap video (I hope it was the long Russian documentary you saw, it's the best one). Like you I couldn't...
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simon@...
simonchadwick
Sep 6, 2011 6:22 pm
I agree, thick plain twist horsehair strings are much better than roped. Simon...
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Craig Fischer
craig_81...
Sep 7, 2011 1:36 am
Hi, yup, I live in the Adelaide Hills. I've been a maker of various instruments for a while now but I'm newly obsessed with the A.S. Lyre! It'd be nice to...
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Craig Fischer
craig_81...
Sep 7, 2011 11:34 am
That's interesting. There are a few hanks of bow hair hanging in my workshop so I hope to make some horsehair strings soon. I'd like to hear how they sound on...
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Craig Fischer
craig_81...
Sep 7, 2011 11:44 am
Hi Michael, the idea of 16th century fishermen using the top catgut lute string for a leader neatly complements the idea of using fine fishing line for a...
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michael king
michaeljking...
Sep 7, 2011 11:53 am
Hi Craig, interesting how these separate technologies cross over so well...hunting bow origins for stringed instruments..... fishing lines.... Michael ... ...
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Tim
vikingtimbo
Sep 7, 2011 12:28 pm
... Hi Craig, ... Yeah there must be a lot more footage from where that came from, but the quality is probably pretty poor. Even one of the bits they chose to...
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michael king
michaeljking...
Sep 7, 2011 1:12 pm
I was drawn into making the lyre from my experience with the 5 string Finnish Kanteles which I felt had a similar traditional role and playing techniques, The...
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Tim
vikingtimbo
Sep 7, 2011 1:56 pm
... Hi Michael, I've posted this next link before, but right at the very end of the video there's a fantastic old photo of a Mansi man with his sangkvyltap: ...
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LM
lavransrm
Sep 7, 2011 2:59 pm
If you trace it back far enough, you get the early hunter-gatherer discovering that plucking on his gut bow-string created a musical tone. Of course, that may...
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michael king
michaeljking...
Sep 7, 2011 3:06 pm
Many Thanks Tim,  not seen this video of Jussi Huovinen, i have seen one other(on the National geographic Lord of the rings special)  we have the origin...
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Tim
vikingtimbo
Sep 7, 2011 3:09 pm
... Hi Larry, The bushmen of the Kalahari still use their bows as musical instruments. They use their mouth as a kind of resonator, so it sounds a bit like a...
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Tim
vikingtimbo
Sep 7, 2011 3:17 pm
... Hi Michael, Yes it was in that LotR doco that I first heard about Jussi. According to the Kalevala it was the old shaman Vainamoinen who created the very...
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Tim
vikingtimbo
Sep 7, 2011 3:27 pm
... Hi again, ... Some specific 'runes' from the Kalevala that might be of interest: The Birth of the Harp: http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/kveng/kvrune40.htm ...
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LM
lavransrm
Sep 7, 2011 4:03 pm
The folk-singer Buffy Ste Marie used to accompany some of her native-American inspired songs on her mouth-bow. She came to Detroit to play at the Retort, a...
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LM
lavransrm
Sep 7, 2011 4:07 pm
On YouTube, you can see her doing Cripple Creek and Groundhog http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JtnznbBOQs&feature=fvsr Larry...
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Tim
vikingtimbo
Sep 7, 2011 4:17 pm
... Hi Larry, Thanks for that link, that's great. Believe it or not even the occasional Australian like me will have heard of Buffy Sainte marie. I've always...
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Craig Fischer
craig_81...
Sep 8, 2011 1:46 am
When I was young and I first heard a recording of Buffy St.M I had to rush off and split a piece of bamboo to make a bow and put a guitar string on it. Hmmm,...
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Craig Fischer
craig_81...
Sep 8, 2011 4:35 am
The wikipedia article on the Kalevala has a link to a recitation recorded in 1939 by the L.O.C. of the harp creation lines ...
