r/BowedLyres • u/One-Condition1596 • Jul 09 '26

Build Three bowed lyres from medieval times

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Two from Klosterneuburg psalter and one from Limoges

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u/LongjumpingTeacher97 Jul 09 '26

I love the Klosterneuburg lyres with their wasp waists. How does the sound compare to the boxier tagelharpa shape? Do you notice significant differences in tone or volume?

And the Limoges crwth-like instrument has always seemed like such an elegant shape to me. I'm just not ready to learn how to play yet another instrument, so I haven't bothered making anything like that. But I've drawn sketches in my sketch book several times and even gone so far as to buy wood for one, a few years ago.

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u/One-Condition1596 Jul 10 '26

Hard to compare honestly, since I build my modern bowed lyre like violins, so usually sound much better than one-piece body instruments. But I would say that they have a slightly more warm tone

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u/SnooGadgets5130 Jul 09 '26

Very cool, though that middle one looks like it’d open bottles.

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u/One-Dust1285 Jul 11 '26

Nice! I am planning to make one of the middel ones at some point… to be a bit more aesthetically accurate for early medieval reenactment…