7 String Lyres plans available (including Viking and travel lyre designs)

7 String Lyre plans available

This is a hybrid model that combines the scale length and playability of the Kravik Lyre model with the 9th/10th Century model, comes with 42-page construction guide plus extra plans(see below)

Can be built as a 6 or 7 string lyre.

Download available here:

Included in Download: 

7 String Hybrid Viking/Kravik model in A C DE F G A tuning 

6 String Viking in G-A, B or C tuning depending on strings 

7 String travel lyre, sized to fit in carry-on luggage on Ryan Air! 

42-page construction guide 

 I am still taking orders for these 7 string models for 2022/3,  5-6 months for this model only.

 see my etsy shop for ordering these

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Lyre Fluorocarbon String sets: more options

Ideally, you would choose your lyre based on the pitch you wanted to play or to match your voice for accompaniment but if you already have the lyre then there is still some range of flexibility depending on the thickness and placement of the string, this is why I have a wide range of string sets available.

My new "Viking" set for the Anglo-Saxon Lyre 6 string model is thicker than my standard set and allows the shorter scale model I offer to tune to G pitch if required.

Tuning examples depending on the length of the lyre:

Standard Lyre strings:

Sutton Hoo G / Trossingen E / Viking Lyre B pitch

Trossingen G Set:

Sutton Hoo A / Trossingen G /Viking Lyre C pitch

Viking Set

Sutton Hoo D / Trossingen C / Viking Lyre G Pitch

String sets are available from my etsy shop

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Plans for the small Viking Lyre are included with the 7 String Lyre plans here:

Lyre Meditation No.1 Sheet Music now on Kindle

Printed music sheet of this tune is available on Amazon wherever you are, also on Kindle ebook.

This edition is an example of how to do lyre tab for 7 string lyre and has links to downloads to make your own music, Included in the book:Sheet Music now available as a Kindle book or Paperback on Amazon : Click here for local Amazon store page (Printed Sheet music and tab for this Lyre tune played)

or the Download pdf edition here: Book/Download Includes:

• Sheet music version pdf (one page 42 bars)

• Sheet Music and tab Version (two pages)

• Sheet music and numbers (Two pages)

• Information, reading the notation and background

• Blank 7 string lyre tab sheet (or links on the ebook)

• MP3 of tune, Midi and Musescore file(links on book version)

digital plans store:

Click here for original download version and my plans to build your own instrument Physical plans, Instruments and accessories: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Thelyreshop website for more info https://www.michaeljking.com latest pictures: https://www.instagram.com/stringdidj/

Resources for 6 String Lyre 2020

Here are the links referred to in this video



Tom Crosby's Lyre tools (Lyre chord generator):

http://crosby.nz/~tom/lyretools/:



Lyre playing method: Spike Bakker's Moro Music Youtube Channel:
https://tinyurl.com/rykel92



Facebook Lyre group:
https://en-gb.facebook.com/groups/189117621210658/



Yahoo Anglo Saxon Lyre Forum/Newsgroup, alas now removed by yahoo, leaving just the facebook version of the Group
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/info



My old Lyre playing webpage:
https://www.michaeljking.com/how_to_play_the_lyre.htm


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Runosong melodies on a 5 string kantele video by Arja Kastinen

I just had to share this is a video from Arja Kastinen on the 5 String Kantele with Bronze strings in A tuning.  Do check out her classic kantele album on the 1833 Bronze kantele on her website









She writes in her video notes:

"Four runosong melodies with variations played on a 5-string kantele. The kantele is a replica made by Rauno Nieminen. It has bronze strings. The original was made by the famous runosinger Ontrei Malinen in 1833 in Vuonninen, Viena Karelia. The kantele is tuned according to harmonics, and thus it's not in Equal Temperament.

You can find old runosongmelodies online at: esavelmat.jyu.fi - "Haku" - "tarkennettu haku" - "kokoelmat". And when you scroll down from the "kokoelmat", you can find two collections of runosongs: "Runosävelmät I" and "Runosävelmät II". The four runosong melodies that are played on this video were collected by Axel August Borenius in 1877 and in 1879 in Ilomantsi, Leppävirta and Kivijärvi (Hiitola). You can transpose the melodies and you should also variate them; only one or two basic phrases are written down."

Free: 5 String Kantele ebook and plans Download

Free Download here: https://payhip.com/lyreshop
Playlist for making and playing: https://tinyurl.com/uovwkto


My original 2004 ebook and plan are now available to download for free, for educational use by anyone in these unprecedented times. They are meant as a springboard to start making musical instruments, an introduction to the Finnish Style kantele and its traditional playing. The ebook guides you through construction and you can either print off plans on your home computer or draw them out by hand,


This ebook was later expanded to become the kantele aking CD-ROM still available as a Download with further kantele plans.

Kindle Ebook edition which will be text-based should be available next year.
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Pineapple Tenor Ukulele in Bog Oak by Michael J King

This is a rare one-off Bog Oak Tenor Pineapple Ukulele.  The first one I have made using Bog Oak for the top as well as the back and sides.  It has a 1920's vibe about it in its simplicity.