This is a series of improvisations I am doing on some of my favorite animals. First is the turtle. Enjoy it played on 19-string acoustic lyre. And please let me know if it evokes the turtle to you!
Category Archives: 19-string
Red River Valley
Enjoy the folk song, red River Valley, first played on 7-string pentatonic lyre with Pickaso Rotary Bow. The melody is slightly modified for this lyre, and the tuning is as well.
Tuning: D4, E4, G4, A4, B4, C5, D5
19-string acoustic lyre.
And, you guessed it! Double strung played on 2 19-string acoustic lyres.
Divine Sunrise
This is an original piece, Divine Sunrise, played on 19-string acoustic lyre with Pickaso Rotary Bow.
The same lyre, plucked, playing melody and harmony.
The double strung arrangement adds another 19-string acoustic lyre.
Lynda Lyre with nylon strings, plus vocals:
This Land is Your Land
Enjoy This Land is Your Land by Woody Guthrie played on 7-string pentatonic lyre with Pickaso Rotary Bow.
Tuning: D4, E4, F#4, G4, A4, B4, C5
19-string acoustic lyre.
Double strung played on 2 19-string acoustic lyres.
God Is So Good/In His Time
Enjoy these 2 hymns/choruses, God Is So Good and In His Time, played first on 7-string pentatonic lyre with Pickaso Rotary Bow. In His Time is slightly modified for this lyre.
Tuning: D4, E4, F#4, G4, A4, B4, D5
19-string acoustic lyre.
Adding another for the double strung arrangements.
God Bless America
Happy Independence Day! And happy 250th birthday to the United States of America!
Enjoy God Bless America played on 19-string acoustic lyre.
Double strung played on 2 19-string acoustic lyres.
Wash the Day Away
I wrote Wash the Day Away for meditation and relaxation. You can listen to the original version with lyrics at the link at the end of this post. Today, enjoy the melody played first on 7-string pentatonic lyre in its standard tuning, with Pickaso Rotary Bow.
19-string acoustic lyre.
And double strung, adding another 19-string acoustic lyre.
Original version with ukulele, flutes, vocals, etc.:
Dusk – Lyre Versions
Dusk is a piece I wrote several years ago. You can listen to the original versions at the link at the end of this post. For today, enjoy the melody played on 7-string pentatonic lyre in its standard tuning, with Pickaso Rotary Bow.
19-string acoustic lyre.
Double strung played on 2 19-string acoustic lyres.
Spirit Flutes version with link to previous alto recorder version:
Frolicking Fawn Improv
Frolicking Fawn is an improvisation loosely based on the hymn, As the Deer. It is in the same key, but a different time signature. Played on 19-string acoustic lyre.
Double strung version played on 2 19-string acoustic lyres.
As the Deer
Enjoy the simple but beautiful hymn, As the Deer, first played on pentatonic 7-string lyre with Pickaso Rotary Bow.
Tuning: D4, E4, F#4, G4, A4, B4, D5
16-string solid body lyre.
19-string acoustic lyre.
Double strung played on 2 19-string acoustic lyres.
Mystical Strings 
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