THE LYRE OF THE ANCIENT HEBREWS...

[slamermansam]

"give thanks to the Lord with the lyre; Sing praises to Him with a harp of ten strings. Sing to Him a new song; Play skillfully with a shout of joy." Psalm 33:2-3

[JesusISComingRUReady]

what a GORGEOUS sounding instrument...i WANT one!!!

[rachel1209]

thank you soooo much for all of this... i love it!

as a harpist and a levite i find it fascinating...

thank you sooo much...

shanah tovah...

[eritreantigaraly]

hey thanks for the warm welcoming of Eritreans..

look at my Eritrean war of independence video, you will hear a different instrument the krar that sounds and looks more similar to that of yours

[Klezfiddle1]

It was absolutely fascinating to see just how similar the Krar is to this reconstruction of the ancient Hebrew Kinnor - even the names of these lyres are similar! I'm certain there must have beem some amazing musical cross-cultural influences going on, way back in ancient times, just as there is today...

[eritreantigaraly]

It is like a instrument of semetic people!

[BombayRepertoire]

this would be awesome with that Moskowitz guy on cymbalum or whatever it is.... Abe Schwartz version of this Odessa Bulgar is sure haunting.... "King Davids' Lyre" is on my shopping list!!

[Klezfiddle1]

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[seblw]

I love this and as you said about the lyre it was introduced from Israel! Actually several of our originally jewish instrument has been copied and introduced to other cultures.

[Klezfiddle1]

I think you are quite right - consider the ancient Greek "Kithara"...it is virtually identical to the ancient Jewish Kinnor - even the names are similar! Also, consider the "Krar" lyre of East Africa, still played today - the similarity in the sound of these names, to me, certainly at the very least, IMPLIES an ancient link to the Semitic Kinnor, which probably predates these ancient Greek and African lyres by a few thousand years...

[JenniThegreat]

Hi! My boyfriend does I think, how does it work, can you just send me a mail to my youtube account? plus he would like to know about the lost music of the jew/gipsy fusion... he wanted to ask if you have any books, documents regarding that subject. Thanks!

[Klezfiddle1]

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[Israbit]

Beautiful !!!

זה פשוט נהדר, המוזיקה שלך נפלאה כל הכבוד !!!

איזה כלי נגינה מיוחד !

[JenniThegreat]

Hey, your music is really, really beautiful. It almost makes me cry.

[Klezfiddle1]

Thank you! Would you be interested in ordering a copy of my debut CD of solo lyre music,"King David's Lyre; Echos of Ancient Israel"? The album should hopefully be out by late July/early August

[GuitarSource]

Your trem picking is getting better, more steady. I think about those kind of things, sorry.

[rakkav]

What musicologists find more curious is why the harp was so long replaced by the lyre in much of the Middle East. The very versatility you speak of is probably the answer. But when Hellenism came along, some genres of music required the more (uh) gentle character of the Greek harps, and they came into vogue again along with the more assertive lyres that had always remained popular.

[rakkav]

VERY NICE! There's no unnecessary reverb to mar the clean sound of the skillful picking and strumming.

By the way, the mode you use here IS found in some of Suzanne Haik-Vantoura's restitutions, specifically in some verses of the Song of Songs (as in Chapter IV). Of course, the order of the intervals in the octave differs because in SHV's system the tonic is on the 3rd, not the 1st degree of the octave!

***** (שלום מיוחנן רכב)