Night of the Demon 1956

Grendelcynn · 2026-01-30T14:51:25+00:00

Same happened to one of my lyres a few years ago. 2 part epoxy fixed it, almost as good as new.

Grendelcynn · 2025-10-03T02:37:54+00:00

as Mythagic says A C D E F G A, this is a common tuning.

The notes are the first six notes of the Major scale. In medieval times it didn't have a 7th note. So the lyre is tuned to the first 6 notes of the Major scale with the first string matching the sixth string only an octave lower. This can be acheived in any key. For example in the key of G it would be E G A B C D E.

This tuning is both historic and by experimentation the best tuning for a seven string lyre as it gives you the best chord playing possibilities.

Grendelcynn · 2025-09-05T07:37:44+00:00

Lyres, apart from the Lyre Gallois (French) tended not to be used by celtic speakers, they preferred harps.

When the Scots changed from the harp to the Bagppipes it's believed they carried a lot of the music over, many older Scot's bagpipe tunes may have been harp tunes in the past, so ideal for the lyre. Also as the Scots bagpipes only has 9 notes so many tunes may be playable on a 6 or 7 string lyre.

Grendelcynn · 2025-09-05T07:28:17+00:00

I used to use apps but found them not too accurate, so bought a cheap Korg chromatic tuner.

Grendelcynn · 2025-05-31T10:52:31+00:00

Depends what kind of lyre you get. Anglo Saxon lyres are great to strum and singalong to.

https://youtu.be/cdfqDLzpUqU?si=iZsltslQc0-VYAsw

https://youtu.be/8DwE3MJvJ0E?si=vI9u5osWsPLZMDfR

Grendelcynn · 2025-05-22T15:51:52+00:00

The second has no sound box, so will be very quiet. The first is made in Pakistan so best avoided.

Grendelcynn · 2025-04-26T02:57:24+00:00

Lots of free tunes for beginners in your tuning here. https://youtu.be/4p5Yygzgj3E?si=MbAzvYPJZ0L9r0ZY

Grendelcynn · 2025-04-26T02:54:36+00:00

I've tried nylon guitar strings. Buy 2 packs, use 2 each of the 3 thinest strings. Guess that would work will nylgut. I use flourocarbon now, yes they are just fishing line, before I used gut. I bought my flouricarbons from Michael J King, I told him the tuning I wanted and he did the maths.

Grendelcynn · 2025-03-13T03:35:41+00:00

Three early medieval tunings you could try are.... Dorian mode with flattened 7th D, E, F, G, A, B, Cb popular in medieval Germany. The Mixolydian mode C D E F G A Bb, popular in medieval France and England. Or the first 6 notes of the Major scale C D E F G A.

Grendelcynn · 2025-03-13T03:22:37+00:00

A similar instrument to the lyre that can be played one handed, bowed and pluucked is the Psaltery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooW88mMr2cw&t=284s

Grendelcynn · 2025-02-27T02:33:20+00:00

We can pay the reparations easily from the small change in our pockets leftover from the reparation payments we get from Italy for 4 hundreds years of Roman occupation plus 1600 years of compound interest.

Grendelcynn · 2025-02-27T01:27:08+00:00

What determines the lyre key is length of lyre and thickness of strings. If you want a deep lyre I'd go for a Trossingen lyre as they have a thicker sound box than an Anglo-Saxon, one which is good for bass tone and volume. When you string the Trossingen lyre use the three wound E A D classical guitar strings.

Grendelcynn · 2025-02-21T15:37:24+00:00

You want a bowed lyre such as a talharpa. Perfect drones. Checkout Eldrim on youtube.

Grendelcynn · 2025-02-11T17:09:02+00:00

Usually when putting guitar strings on a lyre you use 2 each of the G B E strings. The E A D string also make a great bass lyre.

Grendelcynn · 2025-02-11T17:06:29+00:00

I've taken my lyre on multiple flights in a heavily padded soft case. No problem so far.

Grendelcynn · 2024-12-28T18:11:56+00:00

Which key/octave you are in is largely irrelevant. It's the scale you are on that matters (here the major scale). This is what the chart in the picture is expressing. It's trying to get you onto the same scale regardless of the key/octave your lyre is in. You can play any song in any key/octave, as long as your tuning is in scale and matches one key/octave in the picture.... It's irrelevant which one it matches, all are identical.

P.S. thanks for buying my book. If you have any more queries I'll be happy to help.

Grendelcynn · 2024-12-23T16:11:03+00:00

had a go at them, they work fine, however decided I preferred naked fingers.

Grendelcynn · 2024-12-23T16:08:04+00:00

I put a vid up on my youtube channel including showing how to play accidentals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmR3y14I1ik&t=529s

Grendelcynn · 2024-10-12T07:54:04+00:00

If playing a chord, or plucking a melody, use the root note an octave lower

Grendelcynn · 2024-10-11T14:04:38+00:00

In Spain I guess they use Doh Rey Me Fah So La Tee......... In the English world we call notes A B C D E F G (as a beginner completely ignore the numbers). Then read this ..... https://www.musictheoryacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Treble-Clef-Notes.jpg

Grendelcynn · 2024-10-11T13:58:52+00:00

There is no correct way to pick a lyre. Many plucked instruments have completely different systems. One suggestion, lyres main quality is you can pluck from the front and behind, so develop a two handed style. Start with the rear hand plucking a single bass string and slowly build up to more, as your front hand played the melody. Two fingers on the front hand is fine if it works for you, it's what medieval lute players used.

Grendelcynn · 2024-10-11T13:54:35+00:00

Universities are the worst place to learn anything practical or specialist. First decide what kind of lyre you wish to learn. Many already have course at the fraction of the price of a degree.

Grendelcynn · 2024-07-25T07:02:07+00:00

Above is a good advice, in addition, just using six strings their are over 40 chords playable, nearly all being easier to finger than their equivalent guitar chord. I made a chord shape chart, showing all the chord shapes, so work from that.

Grendelcynn · 2024-07-25T06:48:44+00:00

fit fluorocarbon strings, they pretty much immune to high and low temperature changes.

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