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Authentic:
Citole:
Cantigas style
Warwick style
Drums:
Bodhran
Gusli
Harps:
Bardic/Lap Harps:
Gut Strung
Celtic Wire Strung
Floor Harps:
Gothic
(more to come)
Kantele:
5 string
5 string Piccolo
9 string
Performance set
Lyres:
Trossingen
Sutton Hoo
Mosning Thorpe
Bergh Apton
Oberflacht
Cologne
Student Model
Bowed Lyres:
Crwth
Jouhikko
Psaltries:
Pig Nose
Cantigas style
Rebecs:
Soprano
Alto
Tenor
Bass
Zithers:
Fretted:
Epignette
Scheitholt
Fretless:
Myrna Hammered Dulcimer
Echoic:
Non-authentic,
but imitative of
the sound of the original instrument
Flutes
Whistles
Sutton Hoo Lyre
Rotes and Lyres:
More specifically, our common offerings are Anglo Saxon Lyres and Germanic Rotes. The epic sagas of the early Germanic, Viking and Anglo-Saxon tribes would not have been so widely spread if it weren't for skilled Skalds and Skops travelling the lands enthralling audiences with heroic tales accompanied by skilled manipulation of these beautiful 6 stringed instruments. USed to set mood, to influence emotion, to convey action and motion, these weren't solo performance instruments, these were used to layer on top of the voice of a skilled storyteller as he wove a fabric of heroic deeds, great joys and terrible tragedies, spreading the history as they provided entertainment to the nobles and commoners indeed. But this was not just the instrument of skilled performers; it was the fireside instrument played in intimate gatherings of friends, while on voyages or in the lonely nights between battles. It is a meditative instrument that can help bring calm to the spirit and joy to the halls and chambers of any manor.
We base our instruments on the bits and fragments found in such places as Bergh Apton, Sutton Hoo (as the one pictured on this page), Trossingen, Cologne, Morning Thorpe, Prittlewell among others, but we don't replicate these instruments, we use what we know of them to create a completely unique and authentic period instrument with your own style and flair. And we do, in this certain case, have a few real surprises up our sleeves. Contact us to start on your way towards meeting your very own absolutely individual rote or lyre, and free the epic hero within...
For
more information or to place an order, contact:
Chris Nogy,
founder and craftsmancontact@instrumentsofantiquity.com
Phone: 479-283-6364
Please call between 9 AM and 7 PM U.S. Central Time (-6 GMT)
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