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Download: $4.92 This 24 minute video works as an introduction to Lyre making in the anglo saxon style, tuning and playing. please see my other offering for a 3 minute preview of this (tying of the strings)
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Download: FREE This video clip was missing from the first edition of the Lyre CD and the first ipod edition of the video introduction.
I decided to upload it as a preview for the Video introduction.
The video shows the string fitting process, that is explained further on the CD. BWT The video clip is silent  Download for Free |
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Download: $2.81 This is the Downloadable PDF version of the 5 String kantele plans from the Kantele Making CD. You may need to play with the settings of your printer to get the printout right, usually if you use adobe reader, set at 100% you should be ok. Some people with very high definition printers found they had to lower the print quality to get a clearer printout.
If the plans are out of scale by a small fraction then I wouldnt worry, one of the nice things of making an open strung instrument is that you have more freedom with measurements and stringing,
To use the plans Simply Print these off onto tracing paper using your own printer, match up the printouts and tape together! I have left a big overlap to cover different paper sizes and also to aid collating the drawings.
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Download: $2.81 This is the original version of the kantele Construction guide I supplied with my 5 String Kantele guide, before it was was expanjded and became a CD_ROM. It still presents the basics of construction and stringing, though you will still need the plans if you intend to build(see other download for both combined, or the separate 5 string plans or order the Complete CD from me!)
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Download: $2.81 This is the 15 String Kantele plan from my Kantele Making CD-rom, a much larger instrument, one to make after first making a 5 or 10 string kantele.
This is traditionally a drone instrument, and I give the stringing sizes for this, you can also tune it to a D diatonic scale D to d2, email me for alternative string thicknesses for this.
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Bowed Lyre plans 2008Bowed Lyre plans 2008 (multimedia download)
Download: FREE These are my provisional Bowed lyre plans that I am using at present, only the externals are shown in detail. but the sides are 6mm thick but you can use thinner woods and linings if you are not carving from the solid. Download for Free |
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Download: $1.76 This is the small 5 string Piccolo Kantele plans from my new Kantele Making CD, If you have bought the older version of the Cd this extra plan will complete the family of instruments. This instrument sounds in D an octave higher than the standard 5 string, and is useful for accompanying the standard 5 string in group settings, also as a travel instrument. This zip file contains the two drawings in pdf form and the text page about the instrument. please see my Youtube videos for how to play this instrument. Thankyou for your purchase. You will need a zip file opner(www.z-zip.org is free) and a pdf viewer like the free adobe reader 8. When printing as with my other plans it must be set to no scaling and at 100%
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Download: $4.21 These are the plans from the Stick Dulcimer making CD, available separate for people who have made other instruments and also for those following my online video making series, To unzip the drawing just use the free 7zip program, and use adobe reader to print off at "no scaling" 100% size, If you can use tracing paper the prints are easier to collate, otherwise a lightbox, or with care a window can be used. email if you have any questions!!
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Download: $2.81 This is the much requested plan for the 10 string Kantele, a good project to makie if you have made a 5 string before. You need to have read my Kantele making guide or know about kanteles to make it. To unzip plans you need the free to download 7zip
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lyre video 2lyre video 2 (multimedia download)
Download: FREE this is the video in full mpg format from youtube of my sutton hoo lyre Download for Free |
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