http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/ Anglo Saxon Lyres Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:19:25 GMT Yngona Desmond http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/message/1877 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/message/1877 Wow! Thats wild! Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:17:50 GMT chamaemorus http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/message/1876 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/message/1876 This guy is pretty clever though. Making "musical instruments" out of odds and ends. bric-à-brac = odds and ends, bric-à-couac = collection of bad notes Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:31:22 GMT LM http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/message/1875 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/message/1875 This is alost what I imagine a Neo-vulcan lyre might sound slike.. Larry the M Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:11:48 GMT michael king http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/message/1874 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/message/1874 The first version of my 10 string kantele playing guide on youtube has me playing my own modern electric Kantele, not very different from the  (from 3.06 in a Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:50:32 GMT Brian Chabot http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/message/1873 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/message/1873 ... Now I want to put a pickup on my lyre and see what happens when I run it through various effects... I'm not fond of the plain sound of that one though. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:53:18 GMT simon@... http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/message/1872 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/message/1872 Using a stock guitar pickup makes the strings very far apart at the bridge. He'd be better winding his own pickups so as to set them very close together. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:29:36 GMT Stu http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/message/1871 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/message/1871 HAHAHA, I was just joking with some folks at an event as I was demoing a lyre that soon it would be the age of the heavy metal lyre! All it would take is metal Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:12:28 GMT vikingtimbo http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/message/1870 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/message/1870 Hi, I found a couple more videos of people playing the sangkvyltap, but they're nowhere near as good as those old blokes in the link in my earlier post: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:05:24 GMT vikingtimbo http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/message/1869 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/message/1869 Hi, I'm glad my lyre doesn't look (or sound) like this one - but each to his own I suppose. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef1qwaiFeek Where do they get French Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:56:18 GMT vikingtimbo http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/message/1868 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/message/1868 ... Simon, Ssssshhhhh! It's meant to be a secret! If you're not careful you'll have us all banned from our order - the "Sacred Order of Musical Idiots". On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:06:15 GMT Charles Anderson http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/message/1867 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/message/1867 Still could be fantasy ;-) CIA Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:41:05 GMT peter http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/message/1866 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/message/1866 Obviously not fantasy then. peter Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:11:05 GMT wernerbuchin http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/message/1865 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/message/1865 It´s a part of this one: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Piero_di_Cosimo_039.jpg Best wishes Werner Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:46:02 GMT niki naeve http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/message/1864 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/message/1864 Wow! No, I haven't! What do you know about this picture? -Niki Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:38:50 GMT harfe@... http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/message/1863 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/message/1863 Of course there is such a thing as a tromba marina! There are lots of later ones in museums (in Germany anyway) and lots of medieval iconography as well. But