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Yes, Patricia, do let us know! This sounds like an exciting and fun project. Best wishes! Paula ... arrangements for a ... pieces so ... of each ... because ...
Yes, a member directory would be a great thing. I will volunteer that I am in the Atlanta area, and there's not much activity going on with historical harps...
FOR SALE: Kortier arpa doppia (Italian Baroque triple harp), blond maple, standard 4.75-octave range of GG to e'', A=440 (adjustable). This is the self-same...
*Mollie*. "Auntie, don't cats go to heaven?" *Auntie*. "No, my dear. Didn't you hear the Vicar say at the Children's Service that animals hadn't souls and...
thank you president and board member (i assume still). perhaps a joke column in the newsletter would be apt for the entertainment of the membership. HAHAHAHAHA...
Hello, I've been working with a team here in the UK reconstructing the bull-headed lyre which had been excavated in Ur, in Southern Iraq (2600 BC). The...
Hi Bill, That is quite amazing! Is there any plans for a CD? The lyre sounds a but buzzy like a bray harp, but I couldn't see anything resembling bray ...
yes, bill, please share your sumerian string theory with us. amongst the thousands of extant cuneiform tablets, there must be at least one that mentions how to...
I second that, Bill! Thank you for sharing this fabulous event with us. Do tell us much more. I corresponded with Mark Harmer for a while last year, and was...
Hello, Thanks to Flory and Gregory for their kind comments about the lyre. Gregory, it really IS a sistrum in that picture, and I bought one quite like it on...
Bill, this is really interesting and exciting. I hope you will keep us posted, and that we'll get to see and hear the lyre live before too much longer. Thanks!...
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we can't let entropy kill this site! so, paula, how did the monteverdi gig go in denton? several years ago i saw a production in boston and while the harp was...
bill taylor, if you're reading this, i would definitely love to hear more on your recreation of sumerian music. we know nothing of this language, no phonemes,...
ooh- carolyn, let's call it what it is- a lyre. and yes, it is a very fascinating artifact that still has the power to bellow across the ages and shake...
ah, but here's where the wicket gets sticky. the sumerians who supplanted the native ubaid culture flourished around 2500 b.c. the music dr. kilmer writes of...
this is just to you, btw- i'm glad you mentioned your desire to just make music and not necessarily recreate something of which we can possibly never know (oh,...
Hi Gregory! Who was playing harp in the Jordan Hall production? And was kind of harp was it? I think the experience you report is all too common...I think our...
thanks paula for sharing. it sounds like you had a sympathetic director who understood acoustics and wanted you center stage for projection reasons. and...
i just posted a photo of the front panel from the lyre of Puabi- something that i had discussed in one of the messages. then i thought that perhaps many folks...
hi all i've posted more iconography of the sumerian lyre in the photo section. flory- i accidently dumped an image in your 'rogue's gallery'- if you could be...
Thanks for posting the beautiful images, Gregory! The inlaid soundbox is absolutely spectacular. I am very interested in the ancient world, so if you continue...
Hey all: For any of you who might be interested in the lyre, here's something that might interest you: It's Benjamin bagby's performance of Beowulf. ...
I was fortunate enough to see Ben's performance of Beowulf at Indiana U while I was a grad student there. It was utterly compelling and magical. Unfortunately...
thanks larry for posting that. i was lucky to see ben do this at amherst college back in 1996. this poem had been a fave of mine for awhile, so i was thrilled...
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