In keeping with the Scottish theme of recent posts...I have been Contacted by Andy Hirt who has been working on a new version of "The Celtic Lyre" a collection...
Hi, Here's something for people to add to their "must have" lists (although I haven't heard the CD yet). Peter Horn is a friend of Steve Pollington's (and I'm...
Just something I found very interesting, I found a rosewood lyre on ebay that is the standard Anglo SAxon Lyre shape for just £99, I am presuming its made of...
We have not made an ancient Egyptian harp, but we have made a replica Ancient Mesopotamian Lyre, using as far as possible, authentic materials. It was a...
I don't normally do the sales thing, but I have 5 ready to go routed Sutton Hoo lyre body blanks to sell off, seconds... slight router chipping, and a few...
Has anyone here built (or know anything about building) an ancient Egyptian harp? Years ago, I had the late California harp maker Robbie Robinson make a 'C'...
Hello, Just a quick update, I have Started up a Lyre group on facebook which will be running in Tandem with this Site as far as notices or updates from me(as...
I was wondering where might be a good place to buy the brass cover plates that sit on the front of the lyres? Anyone make and sell them or have any ideas? I...
Raymonds Quiet Press sells the plates, but if you want something unique it is not difficult to photo etched it yourself with PCB (circuit board) etchant. A...
I have made a reconstruction of the lyre bridge from Uamh an Ard Achaidh. It works very well and is pretty sophisticated and subtle design I think. I have put...
Hi, I'm new to the group, and I was directed here by Corwen Broch some time ago after asking him some jouhikko-related questions. I finished building my first...
Not exactly an Anglo-Saxon lyre, but an Ethiopian lyre, a beganna, dating back hundreds of years, is being played by Alemu Aga, on Wed 30 September, 7..30pm,...
Yesterday I made a video with a 7-string electroacoustic Saxon style lyre. I hardly need to repeat that I am not an authenticist and no self-respecting ancient...
A few weeks ago I built a 7 string Saxon lyre. Just for fun, I inlaid it with engraved bone (a couple of lion head motifs lifted from The Book Of Kells) and...
I am forwarding this to this list on the chance that there are folks over there who may enjoy this. These are good friends of mine and very very good at what...
Last one today. As you may have read in my last email, I recently snapped my second bridge during accidentally rough transport. I purchased a replacement the...
The ancient 7-stringed Greek lyre with a sound box made out of a tortoise shell is called a "chelys". Has anyone here ever attempted to construct one of these?...
The lyres I make are electroacoustic and, like electric guitars, they are solid wood and do not have a sound box. Since the strings are not made of magnetic...
Graeme Lawson's page, with a list of his publications: http://www.orfeo.co.uk/ Unfortunately, *his* dissertation ("Stringed musical instruments: artefacts in...
In his thesis on the Saxon lyre, musicologist Christopher Page has an interesting section on "scordatura" which is a fancy word for any unorthodox tuning of a...
Hello, My name is Simon Chadwick, I am interested in early plucked strings, though I specialise in early Irish / Gaelic harp. Some years ago I built an...
Hi all, I'm in the middle of writing an undergraduate dissertation on Anglo Saxon and Germanic Lyres and am interested in finding further information on the...
I thought perhaps there might be some people in this group who would be interested in the following video I posted to YouTube of an electroacoustic version of...
A wonderful FREE resource! In 1981, Christopher Page (who went on to found the early music ensemble Gothic Voices) wrote his dissertation on "Anglo-Saxon...
Is Ælfric still on this list? I was wondering what kind of strings he was using in his recordings? They almost sound like metal strings. It also sounds like...
Good Morning, I was wondering what tuning preference you all use? I currently use (from thickest to thinnest) G,a,b,c,d,e. I was listening to Ælfric's CD's...
Greetings Anglo Saxon lyre makers! I am about to attempt my first A.S. lyre. Most of it is straight forward, but making the tuning pegs seems daunting to...
