Seasons Lyre

The Seasons Lyre is a 13-string instrument that is tuned in the diatonic scale. This offers an extended note range over the pentatonic versions, giving a greater repertoire of possibilities in a single instrument. Ergonomically shaped to be stable on one's lap, all the strings can be reached by both hands while the lyre is balanced on the wrists. The lyre is responsive to the player's touch and, thus, requires less effort to evoke the instrument's great potential.

This lyre was designed to create consonance between the organic form and the dynamic sound. The rounded form has an expansive, full-bodied, moving, modulated tone. There are brighter, lighter and more peripheral sounds that unite the individual expressiveness of the inner tone with a new deep, warm, spatial expression. The strings are suspended in perfect balance to the soundboard. Comes complete with use and care instructions and a tuning wrench.

Contact us for replacement string sets or replacement brass eyelets.

Size: 508 mm L x 254 mm W (20 x 10 inches)

Recommended for ages 6 to 99.

Made in the USA

Fact:
The lyre is a stringed musical instrument well known for its use in Classical Antiquity and later. The recitations of the Ancient Greeks were accompanied by lyre playing. The lyre of Classical Antiquity was ordinarily played by being strummed with a plectrum (a pick), like a guitar, rather than being plucked, like a harp. The fingers of the free hand silenced the unwanted strings in the chord.

Instruments known as lyres have been fashioned and used in Europe outside the Greco-Roman world since at least the early middle ages, and one view holds that many modern stringed instruments are late-emerging examples of the lyre class.