First book we’ve used to learn to play pentatonic songs on the kinder harp/lyre. It’s very simple and easy to incorporate quickly into our homeschool kindergarten. Very pleased with my purchase. Rhianne W. Familiar Songs for Pentatonic Playalongs ...
A modern concert harp stands about 70-75 in (1.8-1.9 m) high, is about 40 in (1 m) wide, weighs about 70-90 lb (32-41 kg), and has 47 strings, ranging in size from a few inches to several feet in length. Smaller instruments similar to the harp include the lyre, which has ...
I will sing to You a new song, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will make music to You— Isaiah 5:12 At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands. ...
As Nordenflycht’s friend Gustaf Fre-drik Gyllenborg put it in an eulogy of her,“Norden genljud gaf, hvar gång honlyran slog”[The North resounded, each time she struck her lyre] (Creutz and Gyl-lenborg 1795, 246). Nordenflycht was a star, seemingly born for a life of ...
Paul Butlerhas devoted several pages at his website to the process of researching and building early instruments: rebec, citole, medieval viol, and Anglo-Saxon lyre. He has made downloadable plans available for the rebec, citole, and lyre (the lyre plans are very small). A warning that the...
This means Pythagorean tuning can be replicated exactly on an instrument where every note is played independently, such as an organ with a pipe for every note, or a harp with a string for every note, but not so on a fretted instrument such as a gittern: the placing of the fret dictates...