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NEW! Updated Lyre Making CD,
This disc is the summery of my Lyre making experience over the last decade, it allows anyone to build on the work I have done and make any Lyre I have made.
When you order this disc you always get the latest version.
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(instructions provided) 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 offline website/e-book is a complete guide to making tuning and playing the Lyre plus there are more things to discover. more info.
Contents:
plans for 7 plucked lyres:-Sutton Hoo, Bergh Apton, Snape, Morning Thorpe. , Prittlewell, Trossingen and the St. Severins Lyre in pdf format
- Full instructions for hand building and with routers
- video tutorials
- playing guide
- sections on equipment and tools required
- how to make the fittings for the lyre, including the straps.
- includes the Lyre kit handbook and tips.
- Advice for dimensions of the best sounding lyre soundboards and strings
- **extras on disc including my full range of Bowed Lyres plans worth £25 downloaded alone: Jouhikko, Welsh Crwth, Shetland Gue and my generic 3 stringed bowed lyre in an "extras"folder for you to discover!
- Free email support included with disc if required.
£30.00
Lyre Strings Two Standard sets (G
pitch)These modern Fluorocarbon strings are a better alternative to plain nylon and are very popular with harp and ukulele as they produce a clear and strong sound, On lyres this is very effective on Plywood or thicker topped lyres that are otherwise dull with guitar nylon or too quiet with gut. Once settled in they are very stable in tuning, impervious to moisture these strings are usual first choice on my Standard models Lyres and the kits. If you are playing in the open these are the best option!
Thickest string is 1.0mm Fluorocarbon, through to 0.54mm
2 sets of 6 strings, suitable for Sutton Hoo lyre models
Now with tailgut material too as an extra!
£25.00
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.Please allow 28 days for this item as its made to order
£25.00
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.In maple but also available in willow on request.
£10.00
6 string Lyre tailpiece, This is the usual form of tailpiece which is similar to ones on bowed instruments.
I can make this is various hardwoods: 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 clear and yellow.
£25.00
Standard
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(extra £5).
£15.00
Zither tuning pins and key set for
Lyre/Kantele/harpThis was the set that came with my Student Lyre kit and enables easy tuning stability when combined with nylon/nylgut and fc strings or even wire strings. These work well on Kanteles!
Tuning Key with 21 Zither pins provided. Matching drill bit supplied.
£30.00
Spare Tuning key for Kantele/zither
pegsSolid Brass Key for zither tuning pins
(price including worldwide shipping) ooo
£6.51
Shetland Gue TailpieceThis is the tailpiece that comes with my Shetland Gue and is drawn in the plans I supply, Made of Maple, Yew, or Plum (message me if you have aother timber request)
This has two 1/2 size Cello string adjusters and Synthetic gut
please allow 28 days for this item as its made to order
£30.00
Shetland Gue
Fittings kitIn this Fittings kit I include a Tailpiece with two 1/2 size Cello string adjusters and Synthetic gut,
hank of black Horsehair, two pegs and the endpin.
please allow 28 days for this item as its made to order
£55.00
Bowed Lyre BowBeech or birch bow, natural or antiqued stained, with Black or white horsehair, hand tensions, fixed arch bow. please allow 28 days for this item as its made to order
£49.99
New Standard
model LyreAvailablas soon as 4 months from order
One piece maple soundboard, once piece body. New harp type tuning pins, choice of string material
Decoration is simply metal bands, Brass tacks to soundboard can also be added at extra cost
email to see if any are available, These lyres can normally be available sooner than other instruments I make
£1050
Anglo Saxon Lyre Kit (one left)
This is a new item from my workshop, Developed 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 quarter sawn maple
The string spacings are taken from the sutton hoo, with metal zither pins supplied 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 final 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
£400
Trossingen Lyre 2013
Cologne Lyre 2013 from £750 for plain model.
Vespasian Lyre 2013 £650 (new student lyre model)
