Interesting instrument. It's not really a "traditional" lira at all, but rather a "lira-inspired" instrument. That isn't to say anything bad about it at all (see below), but an old lira would not have had a buzzing bridge or two melody strings and would have had a diatonic keyboard with very different key shapes. It actually looks like a pretty decent instrument for what it is, and most players would not really be happy with an old-style lira (they would find it very limiting), so I hope it finds a good home.
I am actually glad to live in a time when Ukrainian makers can be creating "non-traditional" hybrid instruments like that and when we can have a large variety of influences. We often look back to the golden age of the hurdy-gurdy as the 1700s, but right now is the real golden age of this instrument. We see more diversity, better materials, and easier maintenance now than ever before. While we can certainly love the old masters, I think they would have jumped at the chance to have the tools and materials today's makers can use. Just imagine what the old French makers would have done with plywood, carbon fiber, and modern strings. -Arle On 2014 Jun 14, at 21:16 , HobgoblinH via hurdygurdy <[email protected]> wrote: > It would be nice to know what to expect if we click on this URL. I did find a > very nice hurdy-gurdy on ebay, and there is a sound bite of it on YouTube as > well, but the URL does not even resemble yours. It looks more like this: > http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hand-carved-Ukrainian-Hurdy-Gurdy-Lira-Musical-Instrument-/281359876910?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item41825b032e > Alice -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hurdygurdy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from new subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hurdygurdy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
