Category Archives: 19-string

Swan Serenade

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Swan Serenade is from the collection entitled For the Birds by Anne Crosby Gaudet. You can learn this beautiful piece from her video below. Also, check out her video description for the entire collection, including sheet music. And enjoy my version of Swan Serenade on lyres!

16-string solid body lyre.

19-string acoustic lyre, so you can hear the difference in sound.

Double strung on 2 19-string acoustic lyres.

Anne’s video:

Evening Reflections

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Evening Reflections is from Lyre Foundations by Catherine Guilbeau. To purchase the book or audiobook version, check out the link below. Here I play the piece in A minor, instead of B minor as it was written. This is only because I didn’t feel like retuning my 16-string solid body lyre!

Lynda Lyre with nylon strings.

And the double strung arrangement played on 2 19-string acoustic lyres. This is played as written, with the left hand moved up an octave.

Here is the same piece, believe it or not, with a different time signature. It was written in 3/4, like a waltz, as you can hear. Now I play it in 4/4, more like a march. It’s amazing the difference this makes! Played on 19-string acoustic lyre.

Double strung played on 2 19-string acoustic lyres in 4/4 time.

The course information is in the video description of the following link:

#LyrePoem Brownie Mix

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There’s nothing like a brownie mix,

Especially when you are sick!

It’s hard to taste… It’s hard to smell…

But brownies get you feeling well!

And if they’re chocolate, all the better!

Soon you won’t be under the weather.

They’re quick to make and quick to eat.

Admitted: You deserve a treat!

There’s nothing like a brownie mix,

And then you have the bowl to lick!

Forest Mystery

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Forest Mystery is a piece I wrote last year to try out the G minor melodic scale. From C tuning, tune all B strings to Bb and all F strings to F#. Enjoy it played on Lynda Lyre with nylon strings, as originally written.

19-string acoustic lyre. I really prefer this piece with steel strings.

16-string solid body lyre. Notice the modified left hand without the F#3.

And my double strung arrangement played on 2 19-string acoustic lyres. To me this is the most beautiful and mysterious of all.