The Lyre Shop
On this page you can purchase strings, decorative metal mounts, bridges, tailpieces, tuning keys plus my Lyre making CD-rom with the paypal shopping cart that means you can add items and pay a single reduced shipping fee in one transaction.You do not have to have a paypal account, but can use any Credit/debit card through paypal.
Anglo Saxon Lyre Kit
This is a new item from my workshop, Devoloped to follow the Sutton Hoo lyre in size and string spacings, these kits have the Lyre body routed and the outer profile shaped out of one piece of wood with the step to receive the soundboard.
The maple soundboard will need planing and sanding, gluing and to complete the Lyre you will need to do the final shaping of the string arm /taper and endpin.
The wood used on the soundboard is from my own stock and is quartersawn maple
The string spacings are taken from the sutton hoo, with metal zither pins suppliued for ease of use and function. (wooden pegs can be added later if desired)
The lyre is supplied with FC nylon strings, nylon tailgut with dowel tailpiece and a tuning key.
The instructions of how to complete the Lyre kit are available for free as a Youtube series:
(To complete the kit you will need either a No.4 plane/sanding sticks to flatten and then graduate the fiinal shape the soundboard, Varnish is not supplied, but the instruction leaflet will supply details. )
This kit is a perfect lyre for a first project and for customization, adding your own soundboard pins and mounts.
please allow up to 28 days for delivery for this item
£300
Lyre Making CD,
This disc has the Bergh Apton, Snape, Morning Thorpe. Sutton Hoo,
Prittlewell, Trossingen and the St. Severins Lyre plans in pdf format
to print off, collate and use. the CD also includes a 24 minute video
introduction showing the making sequence, including video footage of
cutting the joints, plus clips on how to tune and play. The
full
web browser based e-book is a complete guide to making tuning
and
playing the Lyre plus there are more things to discover. more info.
£13.49
Fluorocarbon
String setThese modern alternative to plain nylon are very popular with harp and ukulele as they can bring out the sound more, On lyres this is very effective on Plywood or thicker topped lyres that are otherwise dull with guitar nylon or quiet with gut. Once settled in they are very stable in tuning, impervious to moisture these strings are standard on my Student model Lyres and kit.
set of 6 strings, suitable for Sutton Hoo lyre models
£13.49
Boxwood
Lyre bridge,
this is my interpretation of the bone and amber bridges found in
England and Scandinavia and continental Europe. these are
hand
whitltled so are each unique while remaing faithful in design and
spirit.£10.00
Willow Trossingen Lyre bridge,
I can supply this with the dimensions of the original,
88mmX27X12mm with 4mm string spacing or can supply it lower or higher
without any string notches.also avaialable in maple on request.
£7.00
Standard
tailpiece, This is the usual form of tailpiece
which is similar to ones on bowed instruments.I can make this is various hardwoods, Boxwood, Figured Maple, English Yew, Cherry or other woods.
(yew wood default) aprox 75mm by 32mm by 8mm.
There are 6 holes for the strings with 3mm synthetic Tailgut attached in the modern fashion for strength and longevity, gut is also available on request. Red Synthetic gut standard, also available in white and yellow.
£15.00
Gut
and Dowel tailpiece, This is the simplist form
of tailpiece now made with clear fluorocarbon tailgut and a 8mm
beechwood rod, I can make this to a standard length or you can measure what size you want using a mockup with a piece of string. Let me know if you would prefer real gut.
£7.50
Lyre Tuning Key,
This simple socket key is the same deisgn as the one in the Lyre making
CD, but ready made, This is another item that I normally
expect
people to make themselves if they are making a lyre but I supply to
Lyre players on request £5.00
Lyre Tuning Key(GENERIC),
This general purpose key is made for fine tuning the tuning pegs on the
trossingen Lyre or similar spood/button ended pegs. very
simple
tapered open end with leather facing£5.00
Interim Prittlewell Lyre Mounts
These 22mm plain discs are my Interim mounts for the prittlewell lyre made from 2mm thick bronze,complete with 10mm washers. The hole is 2.67mm which is slightly undersize for the copper nail I have in stock and needs drilling outbut can easily be enlarged to suit.
with copper rivet/nail 1"/25.4mm
22mm round
for lyres with a head deprth max of 22mm
£6
30mm
plain Bronze disc Lyre Mounts
These are plain mounts like the 22mm ones, On my Youtube video I show these mounts being fitted to the student model lyre.
The copper nails I supply with these are slightly thicker than the holes, you can either enlarge the hole by drilling out with a 2.75-3mm bit, use a reamer, or sand the copper pin.
£7
Zither
tuning pins and tuning key setThis is the set that comes with both my Lyre kit and my student lyres that enables easy tuning stability when combined with nylon/nylgut and fc strings. 6 zither pins
£25.00
Taplow
Mounts
Coming 2009, special order only
£POA
Sutton
Hoo mounts,
Coming 2009, special order only
£POA
Nylon
Tailgut Red,
This is the standard tailgut I now use, it will outlast gut many times over. 3mm thick, comes with instruction sheet.
super strong ideal for metal strings or multi strings.
£2.00
Nylon
Tailgut yellow,
This is a different color of the standard tailgut I now use, it will outlast gut many times over,
£1.00
New
Standard
model LyreComing 2010, special order only
£600
