Thank you. I am enjoying the opportunity to experiment with easily available materials. The plywood and nylon don’t sound like solid wood and horsehair, but they don’t sound bad at all!
This is a delightful technique, actually. The backs of the fingers contact the strings and change their effective length. A shorter vibrating string plays at a higher pitch. To see a real master of the instrument (which I am certainly not), look for a couple of videos of Lassi Logren. He makes the instrument sing.
Hello, Patrick. Thank you for sharing your experience in making lyres. As a beginner, your explanations are very clear to me. I would like to clarify a few things: Does the bow in this video also contain fishing line? What is the distance from the peg to the bridge in this Lyre? With regards, Dmitry
The bow is real horsehair. That's usually my preferred string material, too. I have tried bows with fishline and they just don't hold the rosin well enough to sound decent. The length from peg to bridge is about 17 inches or 43 cm (430 mm).
Nice instrument Patrick! Fishing line is a good string material especially on alto size jouhikko. Also good playing! 👍
Thank you. I am enjoying the opportunity to experiment with easily available materials. The plywood and nylon don’t sound like solid wood and horsehair, but they don’t sound bad at all!
I'm totally bewildered as to how the non bowing hand on the outer frame changes the resulting tone, but then much of music is out of my ken.
This is a delightful technique, actually. The backs of the fingers contact the strings and change their effective length. A shorter vibrating string plays at a higher pitch.
To see a real master of the instrument (which I am certainly not), look for a couple of videos of Lassi Logren. He makes the instrument sing.
Hello, Patrick.
Thank you for sharing your experience in making lyres. As a beginner, your explanations are very clear to me. I would like to clarify a few things:
Does the bow in this video also contain fishing line?
What is the distance from the peg to the bridge in this Lyre?
With regards, Dmitry
The bow is real horsehair. That's usually my preferred string material, too. I have tried bows with fishline and they just don't hold the rosin well enough to sound decent.
The length from peg to bridge is about 17 inches or 43 cm (430 mm).
@@patrickwoolery6000 , thank you for the answer!