A great Kithara! I think it s just like the Original!! Mr Georgiou has made a work of art and technological feat at the same time! Congratulations and Great Respect! Elliniko Pnevma Athanato●■
Hopefully Master Georgiou will make more kitharas for those who want to Revive Ancient Greek Music & Culture. The instrument can play more than 2 octaves, can play chromatic scales and the harmonics of certain notes! In addition it can play microtones by twisting the weights at his top.
Dr Nikos Xanthoulis in Ancient Greece Revisited is playing a lyre. He is showing how a chromatic scale can be played by placing the fingers at various points on the length of each string. Peter Pringle shows how this Kithara in.this clip can bend notes just like the lever on an electrical guitar. The weights at the top can be grasped by the hand and twisted...
Nylgut doesn't sound like gut. With all this effort, I'd still recommend gut. It is only poorly behaved if the temperatures change a lot and rapidly. If the temperatures are fine, gut is actually not thaaaat poorly behaved. If people think that it doesn't matter since it's similar, think about how different metal strings sound than nylon or silk wound with silver. It's a huge difference, and likewise, there will be a modest difference between nylgut and gut. Gut is harder than nylgut, and it likewise produces more higher pitched overtones. Due to its brittleness, it also has a much, much stronger attack than nylon or nylgut. Just use gut - you could string a Kithara with 30-40 bucks worth of gut strings, so if you spent all this time on this instrument, just use gut. Other than that, beautiful instrument. I might try my hand at making a Kithara one of these days. I want to do more research on their construction, however. I bet the ones played in ancient Greece really sounded spectacular, I bet the sound would blow us away. It's such a legendary instrument... so it gets my curiosity going as to how I might make it.
Yes please keep us updated. I’ve been researching this for almost a year now and this thing was the pinnacle archetype of lyres, and the kitharists and kitharoses were legendary
A great Kithara! I think it s just like the Original!! Mr Georgiou has made a work of art and technological feat at the same time! Congratulations and Great Respect! Elliniko Pnevma Athanato●■
Hopefully Master Georgiou will make more kitharas for those who want to Revive Ancient Greek Music & Culture. The instrument can play more than 2 octaves, can play chromatic scales and the harmonics of certain notes! In addition it can play microtones by twisting the weights at his top.
Dr Nikos Xanthoulis in Ancient Greece Revisited is playing a lyre. He is showing how a chromatic scale can be played by placing the fingers at various points on the length of each string. Peter Pringle shows how this Kithara in.this clip can bend notes just like the lever on an electrical guitar. The weights at the top can be grasped by the hand and twisted...
Nylgut doesn't sound like gut. With all this effort, I'd still recommend gut. It is only poorly behaved if the temperatures change a lot and rapidly. If the temperatures are fine, gut is actually not thaaaat poorly behaved.
If people think that it doesn't matter since it's similar, think about how different metal strings sound than nylon or silk wound with silver. It's a huge difference, and likewise, there will be a modest difference between nylgut and gut. Gut is harder than nylgut, and it likewise produces more higher pitched overtones. Due to its brittleness, it also has a much, much stronger attack than nylon or nylgut.
Just use gut - you could string a Kithara with 30-40 bucks worth of gut strings, so if you spent all this time on this instrument, just use gut.
Other than that, beautiful instrument. I might try my hand at making a Kithara one of these days. I want to do more research on their construction, however. I bet the ones played in ancient Greece really sounded spectacular, I bet the sound would blow us away. It's such a legendary instrument... so it gets my curiosity going as to how I might make it.
Keep us posted on your research and progress! 🙏
Yes please keep us updated. I’ve been researching this for almost a year now and this thing was the pinnacle archetype of lyres, and the kitharists and kitharoses were legendary