Building a Lyre (Anglo-Saxon Lyre, two octave Lyre harp)
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- Опубликовано: 25 мар 2021
- The lyre is a term used to describe a set of early stringed instruments with 100s of variants between countries and periods in time, The lyre is probably most famous as the plucked instruments used by ancient greeks.The Anglo Saxon Lyre is a large plucked and strummed lyre that was played in England in the early Medieval Era. Traditionally 7 strings, i wished to expand mine into 2 octaves. Have any video suggestions? let me know!
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I could try and say this wasn’t awesome but I’d be a lyre ... epic work ! Sounds beautiful ✨
Honestly man I really appreciate your videos. You do a good job of showing how anyone could make one of these instruments. I'm ordering some wood soon to build a simple 5 string lyre.
Underrated video. You still make me nervous using power tools
It's great that you managed to do this with pretty basic tools. A great encouragement to all aspiring lyre builders! Thank you also for the explanation about different types of linseed oil!
Honestly as someone who does woodworking there were several parts in which I felt actual pain but seeing as how this is your own project and the end result being a functional instrument,though some of it is still rough I do have to say job well done sir
As a carpenter, it was a horror show. Good for him though.
It's so hard not to give advice, isn't it? But he seems happy. Can we just tell him how to sharpen his chisels, and how to hold them? I mean, it would have been so much safer - and easier... Eek.
Agreed, as a blacksmith seeing the "sharpening" off the chisel I got a bad feeling deep inside my chest
@@HandmadeDarcy 7 subs and 470 views in 10 years of account history, sounds like you're speaking from personal experience of needing advice!
Beautiful instrument with a beautiful sound that you created there!
Also, I really like your approach on videos, liked it right from the very funny intro.
Showing off the mistakes you made and making fun of it, is something you rarely see,
but what is absoLutely needed!
Love this stuff. I built a Greek 10 string lyre a few years ago. My biggest lyre project to date is the Lynda Lyre with 22 strings. My next project will be a Danh Tranh, a Vietnamese zither.
This is awesome. It sounds so cool at the end!
Thanks so much for taking the time to watch!
This is honestly so sick! I love these videos, please keep making them!
Actually much more sustain that I would have expected.
It is something like if a Troll made a Faberge egg, but the video is fun and it sounds great!
You need more clamps. Like 20 to 30 more clamps. This doesn't have to break the bank if you build your own. Look up "spool clamps DIY." Basically, cut a bunch of sections off a dowel and drill holes through the center (a pillar drill helps here). run a threaded rod through 2 spools, tighten with wing nuts. You can buy them new from StewartMac for about 38 quid for 6, or build your own for about a pound each.
I mean, kudos to the guy for trying, creating, and ultimately succeeding in making a harp at home with min tools.
Having said, yeah, that was hard to watch 😂 There has to be some serious gappage between body and top.
But this is how we learn!
this was a great improvement over your last build - I really hope you continue to create, it's inspiring to see the process of someone learning something new with a bit of humor along the way
These build videos are great. Keep it up!!!!
Thanks for positing this great instructional video
I really enjoyed this video and shared it with my group. I think it's so inspiring how people can make their own instruments. I wish would be able to one day 🤍
Nice work!
Awesome job!! I love your humor :)
this was great - and inspiring! thanks!
Thanks, you've given me the incentive to have a go myself instead of buying one, good work!
Beautiful.
Well done!!
Where to start? You carved out the "sound hole" with chisels, and that was very brave. but when you were done, the inside was still rather rough. The sanding made it slightly less rough. A hand tool that you want at this point is a cabinet scraper. Very inexpensive, and it will give you a lovely flat finish. It removes wood as fast as a hand plane.
Nice one man! This is how I've begun.
I liked this process
What are the original dimensions of the wood you used?
Well done
It’s Alive, it’s Alive 🎶 Congrats a little fine Tuning with a Guitar Tuner set on Chromatic and you have yourself a genuinely beautiful piece of History in the palm of your your hands playing gloriously just like the Anointed King David
seeing those saw blades that close to your bare hands is giving me serious anxiety but it turned out sounding really amazing! kind of sitar like in a way
hey i remembered a mask this time...
@@AidenAppletonMusic The sitar-like sound could be due to the fact that your bridge does not have a crisp enough edge plus you do not use bridge pins. But I think the bridge could be improved a bit... but on the other hand, that slightly haunting sound really suits your instrument well. I watched the video with great interest!
This turned out good man! When I saw out hard it was to hollow out rosewood I was worried for you, haha.
What tuning do you use?
And how many different strings did you use?
My question as well. Put more simply, what strings did you use?
nice job
Uh heiah! let's go, sample pack on the way!?
Delightful stuff! I love your sense of humor and explanation of each step. I'm on my second lyre build right now and I decided to use oak, so I feel you pain when it comes to the chiseling! How thick was the piece of cedar you used for the soundboard?
I'm not sure you own a tape measure (real woodworkers can do without of course) but woow what a nice profi full resonating sound you get from it! Awesome
I think I might be in love.
So awesome man I can't even say. Could you make me 1 and how much?
This is incredible. I didn't think it would look or sound anywhere near as good as it did. Is there any chance you can put in the description the dimensions of wood? It looks like a fun project. I have to try this. I can't afford to buy a Saxon lyre.
Hi!, such a nice work. what`s the distance between pins and the distance between the holes in the low part?
You can use gut too - its expensive but my god it sounds so good. I use gut on my classical guitar, it really sounds so much cleaner, and yet more organic than nylon.
I'm planning to build a lyre with a curved bridge so that it can be bowed. Heh.
Have you tried making a wind Harp either a flat facing one say like a giant 5 ft lyre or a sideways Aeolian Harp?
O wow, now that is a project, i just looked up some examples and what a hauntingly cool sound. Thanks for the suggestion such a cool thing to learn about
Not bad, hone your skills using a router for the sound chamber, and its much faster.
where'd you get the harp/piano tuning pegs?
What did you use for strings?
how many days approximately and how many hours per day?
Why chisel when you have a router?
Why you didn't use Bosch milling machine for chiseling? At least partially in order to facilitate this process and remove most of the core of the wood, and already bring the lyre to the desired thickness with hand tools and sandpaper?!
That's a lot of tools for "mostly using chisels". Good on you for doing it, though. I've been wanting to make myself a multi-octave lyre but thought I was too new to wood working to try - so you have my congratulations and gratitude for inspiring me to give it a go... if I can afford some nice wood - or any wood atm!
Libyan rosewood?
That's the first I've heard of it. What species of dalbergia is it?
Dalbergias are getting so expensive that seeing a plank like that made my eyes pop.
Actually seeing it not go toward constructing the back of a guitar made me kind of ill, not that I begrudge your efforts.
Now I know the instrument Donald Trump plays.