Yes, you can play harmony with only 7 strings! Enjoy Amazing Grace played on seven-string pentatonic lyre.
The same lyre with Pickaso Guitar Bow
Double strung on 2 19-string acoustic lyres.
Category Archives: 19-string X 2
Theme from Swan Lake on Lyres
Enjoy this beautiful, familiar peace played on 19-string acoustic lyre.
And double strung, adding another 19-string acoustic lyre.
A Song for the Little One
This is a beautiful piece written by Catherine Guilbeau with Enfolded Heart Music. I’ve modified the left hand to make use of the larger range on the Lynda Lyre. If you want to learn this lullaby, you can purchase the sheet music from Catherine and/or follow her YouTube tutorial:
Played as written on 19-string acoustic lyre.
I hope you enjoy my double strung arrangement as well, played on 2 BJL 19-string acoustic lyres.
Catherine‘s video:
Fairy Song on Lyres
This is a tune I wrote to go with a poem a few years ago. It sounds lovely and more magical, I think, on a lyre with steel strings. This one is a 7-string BJL pentatonic lyre in G Major.
The same lyre played with Pickaso Guitar Bow.
19-string acoustic lyre.
Double strung played on 2 19-string acoustic lyres.
Original version:
Sleep My Pretty Child
A traditional Welsh tune with different improvisations.
19-string BJL acoustic lyre
Lynda Lyre with nylon strings
And last but certainly not least, 2 19-string BJL acoustic lyres playing my double strung arrangement
Fairy Lullaby (Scottish Trad)
A lovely traditional Scottish tune played on Lynda Lyre with nylon strings
And on 7-string BJL pentatonic lyre. It’s possible to play harmony, even on a small instrument!
7-string Pentatonic with Pickaso Guitar Bow
19-string acoustic lyre.
Double strung arrangement played on 2 BJL 19-string acoustic lyres.
Sorrow Improv
Sorrow improv on Lynda Lyre with nylon strings
And a different improv on the same vamp, played on 2 19-string BJL acoustic lyres
The Open Question – Improv on 2 Lyres
Companion improv to
The Open Question – Lyre Improv.
Enjoy the double strung effects that are not possible with just one row of strings!
In the Bleak Midwinter 
In the Bleak Midwinter on 2 19 string Brandon John lyres. I play the single arrangement once, then the double strung arrangement twice, with the 2nd time moved up an octave. I hope you enjoy!
Do You Hear What I Hear?
Sharing one of my favorite Christmas carols as a double strung arrangement. Here I’m playing 2 19-string acoustic BJL (Brandon John Luthiery) lyres. I hope you enjoy it!
Mystical Strings 
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