On Lyres/Um hörpum
I'm getting the yearning for a Lyre again...(Saxon style, not the Crwth style)
I finally found a site for a guy who makes them and other such instruments. The cheapest appears to be a six-string "Morning Thorp Lyre" about £400 with an oak body, maple soundboard and nylegut strings. He also sells a "How to build your own lyre" cd and has a few ( Read more... )
I finally found a site for a guy who makes them and other such instruments. The cheapest appears to be a six-string "Morning Thorp Lyre" about £400 with an oak body, maple soundboard and nylegut strings. He also sells a "How to build your own lyre" cd and has a few ( Read more... )
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Apparently there is some resources on how to play from lyre players on the Yahoo Group Anglo Saxon Lyres. [Site is for members only, so while I'll link some messages, they might not appear unless you become a member of the group.] For instance, Patrick, who used to play in the SCA, wrote in a message:
Back before I burned out on the SCA, I held classes on basic lyre playing. I even made half a dozen student lyres for the classes. You can see some of the pictures of making them in the pictures section of this group. I also recorded a very basic presentation of how to play the lyre (just what I covered in my classes - 3 chords and singing along). I don't have any idea how to turn it into something other than VHS, but if one of you can convert to electronic format, I am ( ... )
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With the school year it's hard to say when I'll have time and when I won't for events. But ones that there's a likelihood of me being there are:
4/5 Spring Event: Iowa City, IA
4/19 Northshield Coronation: Northfield, MN
4/26 Bardic Madness: Phelps, WI
Still very much up in the air is:
2/16 Lupercalia: Nicollet, MN
2/29 Sunrise: Rochester, MN
OR Haire Affairesky: Wausau, WI
3/21 That Moot Thingy/Rumble in the Forest: Tomah, WI
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