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Dandolin wrote:ooh - very nice. I totally forgot that I'd wanted a cheep lyre (I make do with my "Chime Harp"). I can't tell from the pic -what are the strings like? I kinda wanna try nylgut strings on one.... I wonder if different string types could fine tune the tuning sensitivity?
Off to listen to the vidya
Edit: back -luvvit! That's mostly processed lyre? Are you bowing that bad boy?
Please forgive my ignorant questioning....
Heraclitus Akimbo wrote:Dandolin wrote:ooh - very nice. I totally forgot that I'd wanted a cheep lyre (I make do with my "Chime Harp"). I can't tell from the pic -what are the strings like? I kinda wanna try nylgut strings on one.... I wonder if different string types could fine tune the tuning sensitivity?
Off to listen to the vidya
Edit: back -luvvit! That's mostly processed lyre? Are you bowing that bad boy?
Please forgive my ignorant questioning....
Thanks!
Metal strings on mine. The instructions don't say the gauges (but they did throw in a spare set!).
Sound-source is 100% lyre, quietly fingerplucked and then slowed-pitched down before hitting the multistomp.
Bowing! I hadn't even thought of that yet, but that's get some cool sounds. the bridge/board are flat though, unlike, say a guzheng, so it'd be tough to bow the middle strings individually.
I'm kinda hoping to just keep recording stuff over the next week and get enough stuff that I can edit down into some album tracks.
Heraclitus Akimbo wrote:My lyre arrived!
It's actually handsomer and more durable than expected. Sounds resonate nicely from the sound hole. Very fun to just plunk away at (possibly while declaiming epic poetry, who's to say?)
Tuned D E G A B D E, at some point I might explore to figure out if there are any viable alternate tunings. I imagine some preparations on the strings will be in order as well.
Only downside so far is that it's tough to tune very precisely... it comes with a little wrench to turn the pegs, but even the tiniest adjustment of the strings seems to move things about a half-step.
Going to have some fun with it! Other than the aforementioned plucking, I did some pedal experimentation with my new pitch variable looper into the Zoom multistomp:
MrNovember wrote:So I got my hands on a Warren Ellis Mandocello and am absolutely loving it!
Been researching the rest of the Warren Ellis line, saw the MandoTenor, and have never wanted something more in my life:
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