R. P. F. Morrison

Folk and Historical Stringed Instruments

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I designed this Lyre based partly on the Buste-Socle figurine the Bard of Paule from 2nd Century BCE Brittany, along with other iron-age representations of lyres, and with some elements taken from later Saxon lyres. It is an attempt at a plausible instrument to match archaeological finds from iron-age Scotland which have been identified as lyre bridges.

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