Let's take a moment to appreciate the gargantuan efforts of the American musician Erin Headley, who single-handedly resurrected the lirone from total obscurity back in the 1980s. I met Miss Headley during a masterclass given by her chamber group Philomel at the St Louis Conservatory in 1986. She was charming, self-deprecating, and profoundly and astoundingly musical. We have much to thank her for.
@@Ana_crusis Perhaps not, but there are probably a lot of "current" instruments you could make the same accusation against. I think the Lirone is unique enough to have it's own value as a tool of musical expression. And I don't think you can put a value on history!
@@ianclose123 it’s a reference to Amadeus. Too many notes Mozart. The joke being that people can only hear so many notes before getting bored. Look up ‘Too many notes-Amadeus on youtube.
@@DerEchteBold I get it gentle/djent djent djent. Reminds me of that Peter Sellers movie. When someone calls him a Meshuggah and he replies I’m not your sugar! Talk about comments going from the sublime to the ridiculous. 😂
That’s actually funny. I mean it’s really fucking funny, I mean it. Like right now? I’m laughing. So thank you very fucking much that’s great oh wow. Here’s one for you what happens when you leave a lap steel guitar and violin in the same room together without a chaperone? The answer?. Not a fucking thing. Nada. Zilch. Zero.
The first time I saw one of these, my jaw kind of hit the floor. Used to cellos, my eyes bugged out at the number of tuning pegs. And here I thought my mandolin had a lot of strings to tune. Oh, brother! There are a few of these in the Musical Instrument Museum in Leipzig, Germany¹. I was there this summer. Lots of very, very interesting instruments there including glass, yes, glass flutes and a couple of glass trumpets. Wanna play a glass instrument? I suggest you don't drop it. Great video! I've been looking for someone playing this instrument because I noticed how flat the bridge is and thought, "No way can those strings be played individually." Thanks for enlightening me! Brilliant!
Super cool! I cross tune the violin/fiddle - it adds resonance, and plays chords for self accompaniment - but that tuning is awesome! The low d tuning - G string goes to low D and E string goes one step down to D sounds like bagpipes on the low strings. Love the sound and tuning of the Lirone!
Crwth, Talharpa, Jouhikko, etc...are also bowed lyres where you stroke whole chords (at least 2 notes simultaneously) and hold them "da gamba" (on your knee). The Lirone is very intriguing, especially the tuning. I would love to play one (or attempt to build one if I had the plans). Thanks for sharing!!
I love these baroque stringed instruments, the musicians who master them play for years just to play these weird obsolete sounds, but were the rock gods of their days, and the historical value is so cool. My blood boils with all the destruction left by ww2 including my grandfather who left earth in france as my dad was born. I pray this lovely peaceful instrument gets loved forever and played with full knowledge of it. I hope she knows she is breathing life into it and how important that is
I think it'd suit contemporary classical music rather well. Imagine 2-3 of these playing pure harmonic major chords separated by major or minor thirds, or even minor sevenths. It would be a hell of a sound!
It's tuned in all fourths (neglecting the octave jumps), and you can set up a guitar in all fourths easily enough (tune the high B and E up a half step, or the other four strings down a half step) and quickly remember why guitars have that major third in the tuning in the first place. It breaks the pattern, so there are a lot more chord shapes to learn, but many of them are far more practical to perform as a consequence.
It's Fully Chromatic & it can play in every key sounding in tune, like a Piano. I believe they made 16 String Versions & lots of instrument makers should make Steel Strings for them.
@@delarkaBCN Kinda like a True Temperament Guitar in a way made by Steinberger. The 41tet 8 String Kite Guitar can play in every key in Tune because it has the Resonant 7th for every key.
Really neat. I know some basses can have a lot of strings as well; and, they are used a lot in different kinds of metal. The tuning pretty much goes in reverse from high E upward.
What? For demonstration purposes only? No playing of a full song, or half song nor quarter of a song or a full minute at least? That last seconds of video you could hear the bow scratching them strings!
All very nice, but I can only find videos of *how* to play the lirone. Can someone please upload at least one example of the instrument being played in concert? Pretty please?
Beautiful sounding instrument. How many strings do you typically bow a one time? I can't help but wonder if anyone has ever tried to play it like a Lute.
Seems like frets could be tied onto one as easily as with anything else, it's just not evident that they were historically used this way. The still-extant Kontra doesn't have frets either, but does have the flat bridge designed for playing chords. If a fretless guitar is still a guitar, and adding frets to a bass doesn't make it not-a-bass, then it seems to me the presence or absence of frets is solely down to the role the instrument plays rather than being designed in from the start.
What a beauty! The instrument that is....the lady is a beauty too! I could get lost in that open string tuning too, circle of fifths is very spellbinding!
Beautiful. Would love to see a Floyd Rose added to this.
This is the funniest comment I've ever seen on RUclips. God damn
@@danielkobylarz8732 thank you! Can you imagine her just divebombing the lirone witht the Floyd right at the end of her playing during the intro?
ahhahahahahhahha
@@musichiere if I ever get my hands on one of these, I'll route the body myself and put a Floyd on it 😈💯
Lol. Fanfret
Let's take a moment to appreciate the gargantuan efforts of the American musician Erin Headley, who single-handedly resurrected the lirone from total obscurity back in the 1980s. I met Miss Headley during a masterclass given by her chamber group Philomel at the St Louis Conservatory in 1986. She was charming, self-deprecating, and profoundly and astoundingly musical. We have much to thank her for.
..on the other hand, to maintain balance, it is just a weird chordal instrument and if it disappeared the world would be none the worse :)
@Meza Vilki b'ezrat hashem
@@Ana_crusis Perhaps not, but there are probably a lot of "current" instruments you could make the same accusation against. I think the Lirone is unique enough to have it's own value as a tool of musical expression. And I don't think you can put a value on history!
@@googleuser3163 yes that is true.. My comment isn't in opposition to yours
seems really talented..
"It's good for djental moments"... Yes, I can see all the strings!
Nice pun, my good man.
@@ianclose123 it’s a reference to Amadeus. Too many notes Mozart. The joke being that people can only hear so many notes before getting bored. Look up ‘Too many notes-Amadeus on youtube.
@@nickdryad
Haha, no it wasn't!
It's about Metal, look up 'Djent' ...or look up Meshuggah.
@@DerEchteBold I get it gentle/djent djent djent. Reminds me of that Peter Sellers movie. When someone calls him a Meshuggah and he replies I’m not your sugar! Talk about comments going from the sublime to the ridiculous. 😂
You win
This is what happens when you leave a lute and a cello in a room alone without a chaperone.
That’s actually funny. I mean it’s really fucking funny, I mean it. Like right now? I’m laughing. So thank you very fucking much that’s great oh wow. Here’s one for you what happens when you leave a lap steel guitar and violin in the same room together without a chaperone? The answer?. Not a fucking thing. Nada. Zilch. Zero.
@@GuitarUniverse2013 take your pills bro.
Great, now I want one of those, too
Daily practice regimen: 3 hours practice, 3 hours tuning
I have been so lucky to hear Sarah live with Pinchgut and a very private recital , where I got to meet her and talk about her art
The first time I saw one of these, my jaw kind of hit the floor. Used to cellos, my eyes bugged out at the number of tuning pegs. And here I thought my mandolin had a lot of strings to tune. Oh, brother! There are a few of these in the Musical Instrument Museum in Leipzig, Germany¹. I was there this summer. Lots of very, very interesting instruments there including glass, yes, glass flutes and a couple of glass trumpets. Wanna play a glass instrument? I suggest you don't drop it.
Great video! I've been looking for someone playing this instrument because I noticed how flat the bridge is and thought, "No way can those strings be played individually." Thanks for enlightening me! Brilliant!
Amazing instrument! The chords it produces are heavenly.
It's tuned to Giant Steps ayyyy
That's it!! Thank you! I could not remember the song it reminded me of :)
I absolutely loving learning about old instruments. Thank you for sharing
Anything with sympathetic and/or drone strings is awesome
My banjo says Hi.
Great presentation!
What a remarkable instrument the lirone is. 🎼🎶❤
Super cool! I cross tune the violin/fiddle - it adds resonance, and plays chords for self accompaniment - but that tuning is awesome! The low d tuning - G string goes to low D and E string goes one step down to D sounds like bagpipes on the low strings. Love the sound and tuning of the Lirone!
Crwth, Talharpa, Jouhikko, etc...are also bowed lyres where you stroke whole chords (at least 2 notes simultaneously) and hold them "da gamba" (on your knee).
The Lirone is very intriguing, especially the tuning. I would love to play one (or attempt to build one if I had the plans).
Thanks for sharing!!
I love these baroque stringed instruments, the musicians who master them play for years just to play these weird obsolete sounds, but were the rock gods of their days, and the historical value is so cool. My blood boils with all the destruction left by ww2 including my grandfather who left earth in france as my dad was born. I pray this lovely peaceful instrument gets loved forever and played with full knowledge of it. I hope she knows she is breathing life into it and how important that is
Never heard of this one. Thank you very much for the detailed explanation.
I would love to sample that and assign it to a piano/synth keyboard. Very beautiful.
It seems kind of like a bowed lute. Very beautiful instrument. Clearly a lot of great craftmanship went into making it.
So much grace and pride in the instrument ❤️❤️
Thank you!
Alan
Very interested in the prospects of composing new music for lirone, I presume any written music is usually in tab? How is it notated?
Probably chord names or figured bass.
This is insane. With that tuning, you could get some amazing extended jazz chords out of it.
agogobell28 I hope we can bring this instrument back. And other old instruments as well, there are pretty cool ones left behind.
@@Hi-ke1kn I agree
@@Hi-ke1kn Bruh, I'd kill to hear some hurdy gurdy jazz
I think it'd suit contemporary classical music rather well. Imagine 2-3 of these playing pure harmonic major chords separated by major or minor thirds, or even minor sevenths. It would be a hell of a sound!
It's tuned in all fourths (neglecting the octave jumps), and you can set up a guitar in all fourths easily enough (tune the high B and E up a half step, or the other four strings down a half step) and quickly remember why guitars have that major third in the tuning in the first place. It breaks the pattern, so there are a lot more chord shapes to learn, but many of them are far more practical to perform as a consequence.
that sounds lovely and looks difficult to master
It's Fully Chromatic & it can play in every key sounding in tune, like a Piano. I believe they made 16 String Versions & lots of instrument makers should make Steel Strings for them.
temperated?
@@delarkaBCN Kinda like a True Temperament Guitar in a way made by Steinberger. The 41tet 8 String Kite Guitar can play in every key in Tune because it has the Resonant 7th for every key.
@@RockStarOscarStern634 nice, thanks!
@@delarkaBCN They should make more of them again but w/ Steel Strings & Machine Head Tuners.
Sorry, can you tell me precisely where you buy strings for your instrument?
Very interesting. It would have been nice to hear more of the instrument.
Sensitive, tactile music!
What notes are the strings tuned to.....
Hmmm. Is this thing in a open tuning or maybe Triple drop A#7b?
Really neat. I know some basses can have a lot of strings as well; and, they are used a lot in different kinds of metal. The tuning pretty much goes in reverse from high E upward.
I like the Lirone, I'll see if I can get one.
No one:
“Ya but does it Djent?”
Well explained, intellegent Lady.
Thank you. Very interesting - never seen one of those before
have fun tuning that lol
Wow.. a 14 string cello.. craaaaaazy.. she plays it beautifully
Make a baritone version with the fanned frets
Will it tune to drop Z?
what a cool guitar
Waiting for Rob Scallon to make a video about this
Big part of the music is started in Italy ?
That would be the roman empire thanks to Nero.
What form of sorcery is this?
Cool instrument!!
What? For demonstration purposes only? No playing of a full song, or half song nor quarter of a song or a full minute at least? That last seconds of video you could hear the bow scratching them strings!
All very nice, but I can only find videos of *how* to play the lirone. Can someone please upload at least one example of the instrument being played in concert? Pretty please?
why do you think it'll sound different suddenly?
@@Ana_crusis No, Khasab, you misunderstood. I'm not expecting anything different, I just want to hear this lovely instrument in concert, that's all!
Has Strandberg made its headless version yet?
Is that tuned the same as a harmonica?
Some fiddle! Can you play the "peeler and the goat"?
Are those DiMarzio's??
What would Rob Scallon do with it? ;)
Does it djent?
What's that?
@@infledermaus It’s a form of progressive rock that uses an eight-string guitar.
...but does it djent?
It's beautiful. The string count is nuts
Are those gut frets?
But does it djent?
Does a viol de gamba not bow whole chords?
Yes, but you can't play all the notes at once, so you have to arpeggiate instead.
If I understood, it acts in a similar fashion to the drone box in Indian music.
Fascinating
But does it Djent?
the people living in the medieval period had fuck all to do huh
lol...
Does it djent joke still in trends?
2.24 outro to purple rain
In my head it's not possible to play it
Yeah but does it djent tho?
Where can one purchase these in this sort of quality?
you would need an instrument maker, a very specialised one. It'll cost you a LOT of money
Nice violute you got there. Cheers!
The sound reminds me of my 1800's pump organ.
I would love to hear Pachelbel - Canon played on this
The sound reminds me of a softer sounding accordion
Lack of videos with this instruments is a crime against the art of music. It would be perfect for effects in movies too.
Beautiful sounding instrument. How many strings do you typically bow a one time? I can't help but wonder if anyone has ever tried to play it like a Lute.
Very nice video, thank you, but the lira da braccio had no frets ;-)
Good job this is a lira de gamba then
Seems like frets could be tied onto one as easily as with anything else, it's just not evident that they were historically used this way. The still-extant Kontra doesn't have frets either, but does have the flat bridge designed for playing chords. If a fretless guitar is still a guitar, and adding frets to a bass doesn't make it not-a-bass, then it seems to me the presence or absence of frets is solely down to the role the instrument plays rather than being designed in from the start.
Tunning this must be hell
This one of a crazy guitar
❤❤❤❤
Dude I Lol'ed so hard hahaha
ok youtube, I guess I'll watch this. Happy now?
buy me one plz im poor
Here is another option for bowed chords: ruclips.net/video/PpkogC280Ag/видео.html
And I thought my sitar was a cracker to tune. Thanks
LOL, it is basically tuned like a Slonimsky exercise.
pretty much like a bowed lute, awesome
I don't have enough fingers for this (gorgeous though it is).
What a beauty! The instrument that is....the lady is a beauty too! I could get lost in that open string tuning too, circle of fifths is very spellbinding!
Gorgeous
If anyone was wondering, the tuning is A,H,F,O,Q,K,G,F,I,K,F,I,P,G,F,H,O,F,F,G,I,G F,U,U,F,F,U,V,F.
And here I thought I was the last lirone player
this is great to fulfill the corp of an orchestra... bad solo dou
Please break it so I can fix it.
1:14 la intro de "Dale gracias", de Spinetta Jade. Gracias algoritmo
Come on, we only have four fingers, what's with all those strings?
K. Now play Frantic Disembowelment by Cannibal Corpse!
Where's the whammy bar
Q: how many strings do you have?
A: yes
Common tuning 32nd steps
3 and a half minutes describing the instrument and 30 seconds playing it. Very interesting non the less.
This instrument is so fascinating while limited
* 3 void chords played
Half of 20th and 21th century composers: Niiiiceeee....