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About Asterion's lyre

A topic by Marcos created Dec 25, 2023 Views: 427 Replies: 5
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Does anyone happen to know what kind of lyre is it? i believe it has 7 chords but not more from that, I also wonder if it shares the same tunes or makes a resemblance of how Seikilos Epitaph sounds like as a whole song. Any ideas I will keep in mind, its been a long time I considered getting one to play that music 馃グ

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I went a bit about the process of redesigning Asterion's lyre here, have you checked it out? I can try and answer any specific questions if you have them.

yes, I precicely noticed the change of asterion' lyre, however I dont know what *kind* of lyre is it, there are some of english, greek orgin or chelys kind, any of these you based it on when you designed it?

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They're all based on Greek lyres, though heavily modified from the standard design.

The left one is a chelys-style barbiton. It's by no means a traditional chelys, but still it's chelys-style.

The right one is inspired on the U-shaped lyre from Hagia Triada Sarcophagus while mixing it with the Minoan symbol we call the "horns of consecration." I don't know how I'd classify it, but perhaps the closest would be calling it kithara-style (though not with the movable crossbar that Luthieros has on their kithara model).

Thanks for the info, I will check on Luthieros page and find a way to get one of these pretty lires, the shipping to my country will be quite harsh but I might find find a way eventually.

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I wana hear you plaing the song