Outstanding!!! just fantastic work on resurrecting these amazing instruments....i definitely need to get your lyre plan CD....thanks for all your efforts!!!!
I sell two sets of strings for this instrument on my shop, My standard set tunes to E diatonic my lighter Trossingen set tunes to G tuning,. This is for fluorocarbon strings , If you want gut strings drop me an email as I don't have these in stock. www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Thelyreshop
Some of your lyres have soundholes and some not. Why is that? I am wondering whether to make some on my lyre or not. Would it make sound louder with spruce soundboard?
Ringeistvonmordor most 5th-10 th century lyres didn't have or need soundholes. But some lyres were found with soundholes. The trossingen lyre has small drill holes in it for example. Other lyres like the oberflacht or cologne did not. The main thing is most of the lyres are very thin bodied. Less than an inch . Not deep bodied Tapered to the top. It's not all about the bass with these.
Ringeistvonmordor my travel lyre has a spruce soundboard and no soundholes. If your lyre is a slim northern lyre I would leave out the holes. My kravik lyre with its deep bowl shaped body does have holes but is 13th century. . If it's a deep bodied lyre you are making perhaps drill small holes on its arms like on he trossingen lyre. . You don't want substantial holes on the soundboard without braces.
Hello Hilda, it's made in two pieces. Body which is hollowed and separate soundboard. See my lyre kit video to see how this works. ruclips.net/video/V_I89w4_CMA/видео.html
I must assume that the instrument listed for sale is sold by now? I have been watching your videos for a while now and actually decided to forgo the MAKING of the anglo saxon lyre and I bought one instead. It is certainly playable but would love to entertain the though of one as beautiful as this one!
Sorry yes. It has been sold. I do have a wide selection of models listed on etsy.com that can be purchased/made to order within three months. A trossingen lyre like the one on the video would be 6-9 months wait
+Vapaamies I sell sets of Fluorocarbon Lyre strings on my Lyre shop page of my website at www.michaeljking.com/lyre_shop.htm , plus my etsy pages too. You can hear the fluorocarbon sets on my Oberflacht lyre video and the Kravik lyre video. The Trossingen Lyre on the video here has plain gut strings I use with replica instruments and can provide these to order.
I build these to order, 9-12 month wait for these, I do keep Anglo Saxon Lyre kits in Stock if you wanted a lyre much sooner, very easy to complete yourself (see my Lyre kit video recently) these are similar to the trossingen lyre, I can also build one of these standard lyres in 2-3 months if you wanted one pre-made.
Fascinating! I had not thought how many chords you can get on just those few strings. I'd always imagined they were played like a veena or a similar arpeggio/drone instrument in Indian music. From a glance at your other videos, it looks like you have an even more severe case of MIAS (Musical Instrument Acquisition Syndrome) than me! And that is saying something :) - I too own a few Blaine Horlocker strumsticks (the basic, a banjo version, with the thickest squarest neck you ever saw and an electric firestick) - basic instruments, but I'm a basic player :) Here's a link to me playing a song I wrote on the the Banjo Strumstick ruclips.net/video/hWiHJIex5lI/видео.html
Outstanding!!! just fantastic work on resurrecting these amazing instruments....i definitely need to get your lyre plan CD....thanks for all your efforts!!!!
As usual, gorgeous looking and sounding instrument Micheal!
Thanks for showing his instrument.
Really a piece of art Michael, looks and sounds great! Are the strings nylon or gut? Great job as always!
Ok I REAALLLLY want one of these now.... Fuck....
I’m currently building my own version of this instrument, but I’m going to have some difficulty with finding strings. What gage(s) are your strings?
I sell two sets of strings for this instrument on my shop, My standard set tunes to E diatonic my lighter Trossingen set tunes to G tuning,. This is for fluorocarbon strings , If you want gut strings drop me an email as I don't have these in stock. www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Thelyreshop
Nice work
Do you fancy playing one then? It looks cool - maybe I should.
Some of your lyres have soundholes and some not. Why is that? I am wondering whether to make some on my lyre or not. Would it make sound louder with spruce soundboard?
Ringeistvonmordor most 5th-10 th century lyres didn't have or need soundholes. But some lyres were found with soundholes. The trossingen lyre has small drill holes in it for example. Other lyres like the oberflacht or cologne did not. The main thing is most of the lyres are very thin bodied. Less than an inch . Not deep bodied Tapered to the top. It's not all about the bass with these.
Ringeistvonmordor my travel lyre has a spruce soundboard and no soundholes. If your lyre is a slim northern lyre I would leave out the holes. My kravik lyre with its deep bowl shaped body does have holes but is 13th century. . If it's a deep bodied lyre you are making perhaps drill small holes on its arms like on he trossingen lyre. . You don't want substantial holes on the soundboard without braces.
wow! i was wondering if the soundboard is hollow? or if it just has drilled holes to the half
Hello Hilda, it's made in two pieces. Body which is hollowed and separate soundboard. See my lyre kit video to see how this works. ruclips.net/video/V_I89w4_CMA/видео.html
I must assume that the instrument listed for sale is sold by now? I have been watching your videos for a while now and actually decided to forgo the MAKING of the anglo saxon lyre and I bought one instead. It is certainly playable but would love to entertain the though of one as beautiful as this one!
Sorry yes. It has been sold. I do have a wide selection of models listed on etsy.com that can be purchased/made to order within three months. A trossingen lyre like the one on the video would be 6-9 months wait
What Size of nylon strings you use?
+Vapaamies I sell sets of Fluorocarbon Lyre strings on my Lyre shop page of my website at www.michaeljking.com/lyre_shop.htm , plus my etsy pages too. You can hear the fluorocarbon sets on my Oberflacht lyre video and the Kravik lyre video. The Trossingen Lyre on the video here has plain gut strings I use with replica instruments and can provide these to order.
Where can I buy one
I build these to order, 9-12 month wait for these, I do keep Anglo Saxon Lyre kits in Stock if you wanted a lyre much sooner, very easy to complete yourself (see my Lyre kit video recently) these are similar to the trossingen lyre, I can also build one of these standard lyres in 2-3 months if you wanted one pre-made.
Fascinating! I had not thought how many chords you can get on just those few strings. I'd always imagined they were played like a veena or a similar arpeggio/drone instrument in Indian music.
From a glance at your other videos, it looks like you have an even more severe case of MIAS (Musical Instrument Acquisition Syndrome) than me! And that is saying something :) - I too own a few Blaine Horlocker strumsticks (the basic, a banjo version, with the thickest squarest neck you ever saw and an electric firestick) - basic instruments, but I'm a basic player :) Here's a link to me playing a song I wrote on the the Banjo Strumstick
ruclips.net/video/hWiHJIex5lI/видео.html