What is a Lyre Harp, and Why is it so Amazing?
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Mikael "Mike" Baggström
Composer, Musician, Artist
I want to remind anyone who wants to try this that it's so important to properly clean and polish your instrument often. No one likes a dirty lyre.
Also, keep it refrigerated to avoid a dirty rotten lyre.
I went from carefully reading the explanation to laughing out loud once I realized it was a pun 😂
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I play the lyre harp and indeed its very calming
It is such a lovely instrument 😊
@@learningmusic yea, it sure is!
If you want to play accidentally just press and hold the string at the opposite side of the bridge while the other hand plugging the string. Which means this lyre can play more than half tone notes which you need to play the Ancient Greek songs.
Great tip Joseph, a bit tricky though, but if you can do it well it could be amazing for expanding the songs you could play! =)
It is really a beautiful instrument. You can tune the strings to sharps and play many melodies in the guitar mods/ scales. Im learning now chromatic lyre wich is also super exciting. Diatonic lyre I have also. I know a youtuber @Samantha on mars who made thousands of musical cover for 7//16 and (I think also) 19 strings diatonic lyre.
Hello Magdalena, I agree with you, and my personal favorite tuning is D minor (which means tuning down the B's to Bb's). Some day I would like to have a nylon string harp too, perhaps a celtic harp...but they get so big and I already have so many instruments that take up space in my studio haha. 😂
@@learningmusic But it is soooo enjoyable to play the new instruments! Im playing pian&theremin and now I , learning chromatic lyre - When I will be better in it I will buy a proffesional chromatic lyre from atelie. Before I decided to learn the chromatic lyre with 35 strings I have managed to get myself a diatonic one and a little chromatic lyre wich I don´t have much use of
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@@learningmusicthere is no such thing as enough instruments. 20+ different instruments, still find a place to put them
Your video was all I needed to help me decide to finally buy the lyre. Thanxs, man!
Glad to hear it! Have fun playing 😊🎶
We can thank Hermes for this beautiful instrument 😉
Excellent video👍 answered all my questions and did it with a smile🙂
What a lovely and kind comment, thank you so much. 🙂
This was an awesome video!
Glad you liked it! 😊
Really interested on learning this instrument. Kalimba and Harmonica is also amazing I think.
The lyre harp is a beautiful instrument, very relaxing, I have the Kalimba too but it is way more confusing for me to play since the notes are not linear. 😃
I have 2 Kalimbas (one tuned to B and a 34 key tuned to C) also have a lyre harp, I had a lot of trouble playing the harp but the Kalimbas are so easy and fun. I bet there are tons of videos on playing harmonica, it’s a cool instrument. 👍🏻
Edited for a bad autocorrect! 😂
Just got a 7 strings lyre with a more symetrical shape (so I can hold and played it with either hand wich is kinda cool for an ambidext person) and the sound is just magical.
Being fidgetting with it for half an hour without my bae complaining (as she normally do when I start playing an instrument).
I would love to get a 7 string old "classic" shape lyre some day too. And yes, the sound of these instruments are truly like magic. And so relaxing 😊
great video, your channel seems very underrated!
Thank you Trog =)
I have an Anglo-Saxon lyre, and I put myself to sleep playing it XDD
It is indeed a very peaceful and relaxing instrument =)
Yeah I recently got a Lyre and the first song I wanted to play on it was in the key of D so I had to tune it with an F# and C#. Fortunately another whistle I play is also tuned to that scale so all of the songs I know for that transfer easy to my Lyre tuned in the same key.
That sounds perfect, have fun! =)
Wonderful video
Many thanks =)
Fin video!
Tack så mycket =)
Beautiful sound. Where did you buy your lyre, and does it have steel or nylon strings?
I got it from a music store in Germany (I am from Sweden) called Thomann. It is steel strings, but I am thinking of changing them to nylon as I prefer the softer sound.
Can you make a lyre sound like a sitar?
Dude just play the freaking harp so we can hear how good it sounds lol
Haha, well to be fair this video was mainly to explain what a lyre harp is, and why I love it personally. =)
Awesome!
Can I tune one octave to a different scale? Let’s say a major Myxolydian with a flat 7th?
Certainly, will perhaps make it a bit hard to remember if you change tunings often as there is not fretboard or any visual guide at all, but go ahead. =)
I want to take your udemy class, but i need to know whats a good Lyre to start with
If you are based in Europe, the one I got is from the music store called "Thomann". I got their own "Thomann" brand too and am happy with the quality.
Appreciate
Thank you =)
@@learningmusic Interesting I play 6 String guitar 🎸 but that sound is so different like the Past….. educational thanks again
hello thank you for the explanation, are the strings just acoustic guitar strings there ?
You are welcome. And no, you need specific "lyre harp" strings. But you get them when you purchase the lyre harp, and you can buy extra online too. =)
@@learningmusic then i better built one myself :D thanks man
I want to learn the lyre how?
I bought your classes, thanks.
2 Questions:
What strings are on that Lyre? Nylon?
And how many strings do you recommend a beginner have?
Yes steel strings, I have been thinking of changing to nylon later.
The strings on this lyre are guitar strings with no tension / light strings type. I do not recommend to change to nylon it’s doesn’t work and sound very poor. The beginners need at lease 19 strings and the more strings are the better since beginner doesn’t know about mode of the songs such as Dorian ,Aeolian etc.
Is the lyre phoenician?
Rember the lyre is a old instrument but the so cald modern lyre witch most ppl play and he got is less then 100 years old.
I would love to have the old historic version too some day. =)
I just received my 10 string lyre but my question is are the heavier string supposed to be on the right?
That's great Claudette, so left and right depends on perspective. Basically, when you hold the Lyre, the lower strings (heavier strings) should be closest to your body. Have fun learning and playing! 😃
Hey! Do you have any website to share to buy one ?
No, I bought mine from Thomann music store online,
I'm making a decision on choosing an online Lyre course. I saw your videos a couple of times but couldn't make the decision, cause you don't play it in your free videos, but talking. If you could play some tunes in your free videos, that would help learners to decide to buy your course.
Ah yes I will consider doing more music performance videos, but probably not on this channel (I have 4 more youtube channels) for music. Anyway, this is a course for complete beginners, taking you from step 1 and on. Here's the link to it: rebrand.ly/lyre-harp
What brand is your lyre?
I got it from Thomann music store in Germany (I live in Sweden myself), I think it was their own brand.
Can you change the Hz Frequncy? If so, How?
Yes you can, but you would need a tuner app that you can change to another frequency (for example 432Hz). I assume that is what you meant.
@@learningmusic THANK YOU!!
Do you sell this instrument?
No, I don't sell any instruments. I hope you find one. =)
Is this the instrument that is played during Elvis when the carnival woman sings Snowman’s Coming? I’m desperately trying to find out what it’s called
Hello Matthew, I am sorry I don't know, I hope you can find out. 😊
If it is a lute body instrument with a yoke and no frets, it's a lyre. The strings have to have a bridge. A lyre harp is just a lyre, and it's called a harp usually when someone is emphasizing the higher number of strings.
@@hellomate639 Yeah I’m still not 100% sure 7 months later, but I’m pretty sure it’s just a Lyre and the harmonised way it is being played is fictional. Lyres and Harps don’t have any means by which to play 8-bar block chord progressions like a guitar, right? Just arppegio chords? In the movie she is strumming what looks like a Lyre to block chords, but it’s at least 5 chords, so I can’t conceive of any way a Lyre could do that without a fret board (unless there is some sort of mechanical attachment I don’t know about)
@@matthewvaughan8192 Do you have a link to the scene? Or an image of it?
It could also be an overdub, but one method of playing the lyre is to mute strings and then strum it.
You can actually do some reasonably interesting chord progressions this way.
@@hellomate639 Yeah you can watch it here, it starts around 1:45 just as Elvis & the Colonel leave the house of mirrors. I assume it in an overdub because it’s a studio recorded track, but either way I’d like to know what instrument she’s playing and what it was recorded with
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Nevermind, I saw you use metal strings.
And you use 16 strings, it's that what you recommended we begin? With 16?
I think so, more than that and it will be a tuning nightmare haha.
i really want to buy one but Im too poor lol.
It's such a beautiful instrument
It's a lovely instrument, I hope you can afford it some day. =)
Nice vid, just a couple of tweaks. Harmonics allow 6 string lyre players to play 18 notes, and there are many methods of playing. Ancient lyres tended to be strummed a lot like a guitar, so are better with few strings. Simply plucking basic melodies seems to be a modern thing to do on these "ancient" 21st century mass produced Chinese lyres, like you are holding.
Im just trying to play some baldurs gate music so that Apollo will be pleased with me 😅
I love Baldur's Gate music, have fun. =)
You're not lying to us, are you?
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There are lyres with half tones like mine, then you can play accidentals.
Oh really? I thought only pedal harps had that. =)
@@learningmusic Yes, they are difficult to find. But Cega has a lyre with 32 strings and half tones.
Played by David, who became king of Israel
this is not a real lyre. Sadly, almost no one makes real lyres anymore except some stores on etsy and another lyre maker called LUTHERIOS where they make genuine reproduction of greek lyres. A genuine greek lyre can be played with a much wider range of techniques, allowing you to get two or more octives on just seven strings. But unfortunately because those lyres are all hand made and not many people buy them, they are all very expensive...
How could you make this video and not give us a demonstration? So rude.
I am sorry if I offended you, I wish you a great day. =)