My arrangements for solo lyre are based on reconstructions of some of the incredibly rare, actual surviving written music of antiquity. Examples have remarkably survived from both ancient …

This amazingly exotic tone inspired me to research in more depth about any ancient illustrations of lyre bridges, and I soon found this incredibly detailed painting of a very unique lyre bridge, …

Nikolaos Brass specializes in making amazing hand-crafted replicas of the Lyres of Ancient Greece, including the Kithara & tortoise shell form lyre: All his lyres feature authentic gut strings.

"The Trossinger lyre is a stringed lyre from an Alemannic grave nobility of the 6th Century from the "Music City" Trossingen in Tuttlingen. This almost perfectly preserved lyre is considered …

The lyre seems to have completely replaced the use of the harp in the Levant in the Biblical era, and indeed, the only illustrations we have of harps being played in ancient Israel, dates to a …

Sacred ancient melodies, performed on a replica of the 3000 year old Biblical "Nevel" Lyre (in ancient Hebrew: נבל) - once played in the Temple of Jerusalem by my Levite ancestors to …

The argument that the Tiberian notation represented the truly ancient and prophetic tradition (and not just a local and synagogal one deriving from an older and purer tradition) couldn't rest on …

In this blog, I will investigate all three of these unique, ancient musical treasures - I also discuss my recordings & arrangements for solo lyre, of both the oldest written melody & the oldest …

To aid personal research into this fascinating topic, I have also summed up a brief outline of the basics of my exploration into the history of the lyre, into a freely downloadable PDF booklet, "A …

Evoking the haunting sounds of the lost music of Ancient Rome... This album comprises of a series of new compositions for an ancient lyre, to evoke once more, the lost music of ancient …