@@LouisianaBlackwaterFlyFishing Thank you for your comment. There are a lot of things that preventing the arms of bending, it has to do with the quality of the wood we use, the grain of the wood, the position that we put the arms etc.

Thank you very much!

Thank you very much!!!

Thank you very much!

Σας ευχαριστούμε για το σχόλιο σας. Δεν θέλουμε να χρησιμοποιούμε κανονικό καβούκι από χελώνα η αληθινά κέρατα για οικολογικούς λόγους περισσότερο, προτιμάμε τις ξύλινες κατασκευές στο εργαστήριο μας.

Οκ , ωραια κατασκευη

@@Nautikos986 Σε ευχαριστούμε πολύ!

Καλησπέρα σας, ρίξτε μια ματιά στο website μας αν θέλετε. www.nikolaosbrass.com Εναλλακτικά για περισσότερες πληροφορίες μπορείτε να επικοινωνήσετε μαζί μας μέσω της σελίδας μας στο Facebook facebook.com/nikolaosbras (Μουσικά όργανα ''Νικόλαος Μπράς'') Σας ευχαριστώ!

Καλησπέρα σας, το εργαστήριο μας βρίσκετε στα Εξάρχεια. Μπορείτε να δείτε στον χάρτη την τοποθεσία του nikolaosbrass.com/index.php?controller=contact Εναλλακτικά για περισσότερες πληροφορίες μπορείτε να επικοινωνήσετε μαζί μας μέσω της σελίδας μας στο Facebook facebook.com/nikolaosbras (Μουσικά όργανα ''Νικόλαος Μπράς'') Ευχαριστούμε πολύ.

Yes, the ancient Greek texts about the construction of the lyre describe the use of reeds inside of the turtle's shell, which certainly played a useful role in the intensity created inside the turtle shell by the strings, etc. and sure some other roles. Our copy here is made of wood and not of turtle shell, as a result it has different pressures-tensions , so we place the arms little bent and inside the wooden shell as you would notice.They are very stable. As a result, we do not need reeds. We have also made lyres with the reeds way and lyres that their skin is stabilized with small pins, as it described in the ancient greek texts about the construction. Both ways of construction are remarkable and neither of our lyres has collapsed. In our workshop you can see our different types of lyres, even those that have different types of tuning pegs. Thank you very much for your time and your questions.

Καλησπέρα σας, αυτό εξαρτάται από τον ήχο που θέλουμε να προσεγγίσουμε, στην συγκεκριμένη λύρα έχουμε βάλει χορδές κλασικής κιθάρας nylon.

Ευχαριστώ πολύ χαίρομαι που σας αρέσει.

well, when ✨someone✨ is trying to reconcile with appollo after having eaten one of his cows accompanied with turtle soup, one has to think fast

Nowdays we have a difficult and busy life my brother cause "caring" about money make us so weak. The real power exists in knowledge which should be free for everybody. Don't believe that ancient times were worse than today.

Ancient hunters turned their bows into single stringed musical harps. By adding more and more strings, it became a triangular harp. Eventually, they turned the strings vertically, added a tortoise shell for a hollow amplifier, and attached a cross bar. Because of this you could carry it while you walked or rode on a horse as a portable instrument. Interesting note, the lyre and the bow are both symbols are related to Apollo. I think there's a correlation there

Thanks for your comment, we use glue and in some cases we also use wooden nails.

Dear Mr Levy thanks for your interesting comment , We believe that because the Greeks were philosophical and from them came the democracy, they would certainly have thought of making some wooden copies of turtle shells than killing the turtles, and we think that it is also very likely because they have built other musical instruments that were wooden. As we know, Unfortunately information to prove this has not yet been found. Nikolaos Bras is the first that revived the ancient Greek musical instruments, constructing them after a 35 years of research and study in collaboration with musicologists and archaeologists. Our musical instruments has been certified by the Ministry of Culture. We've ended up with certain woods that have the same hardness as a turtle shell and are very close to the sound that produces a true turtle shell. First of all our idea started for ecological reasons. Sorry if my English are not so good, I hope I made myself clear. :)

Ancients used only dead turtle shells.... Turtle was a sacred animal they never killed them!

Καλησπέρα, είδα στο προφίλ σου ότι είσαι από Ελλάδα. Εμείς έχουμε απόθεμα από δέρματα που τα έχουμε φέρει από Αίγυπτο, μπορείς να κάνεις μία αναζήτηση στο ίντερνετ για "δέρματα κρουστών" νομίζω ότι θα βρείς. Για οποιαδήποτε πληροφορία μπορείς να επικοινωνησεις μαζί μας μέσω της ιστοσελίδας μας www.nikolaosbrass.com ευχαριστώ

Hello, thanks for your comment, no it is another lyre we made.

albusmagus Thank you for the reply. is it similar to the one in this video? I love the sound and I would like to make one.

Yes it is a same size lyre with this in the video, I am Glad that you like the sound of our lyre, if you want you can hear some great bands that playing with ancient greek musical instruments we have made for them. One is : Daemonia nymphe and the other is : eveldor. Thanks

albusmagus Thank you for the info!

Hello and thanks for your interest, the bridge its standing on the skin of the lyre and it is adjustable.

+charaev82 Hello, and thank you for your interest. The tuning I used is based on the scale of A (A2,B,C3,D3,E3,etc. And the harmonics are per four strings. :)

OOO!! Good!!! Thank You!!)))

+Susan rozo Hello, I am happy that you like the track. Is an improvisation in ancient Greek lyre i created for the video.

+Chinmay Ranodaria Hello, yes you can find a lot of books about ancient greek music and instruments, such as ''ancient greek music'' by M.L. WEST and other authors. I am glad that you liked the video.

+albusmagus I am indian classical music lover especially rudra veena its string instrument of india very deep voice I want learn and I want to know about world music

+Nairolf der Liederbolt Hello, for the Lyre in the video we used linden.

Καλησπέρα mirto συνεχιζεις ακομα την trance ???