10 String Pentatonic Lyre, Ash Wood, Hand carved

Description

Welcome to Nisoria Musical Instruments!
We make pentatonic and diatonic instruments that are rooted in our experience with music and pedagogy. The design of our products is modern, inspired by Waldorf art, while allowing the natural tone of the wood to come alive.
This lyre has the following pentatonic tuning: d’, e’, g’, a’, b’, d”, e”, g”, a”, b”/ re’, mi’, sol’, la’, si’, re”, mi”, sol”, la”, si”
You can naturally vary the tuning of the instrument within certain limits.

You can listen to the lyre here: soundcloud.com/user-644266/10-string-ash-lyre

All of our lyres are made of one piece of wood, selected for resonance, with no defects and structurally solid.

This particular instrument is made of European Ash wood. Ash is often used for solid body musical instruments. The natural resonance of the wood results in a balanced tone that is sweet sounding, for defined lower notes to clear high notes.
The heartwood of some Ash trees has nice dark-on-light stripes that resemble Olive wood. We use mostly this part of the timber that is not only beautiful but also dense and strong, which helps with the resonance of the instrument and the rigidity against the string tension.

After we give the wood a general shape we achieve the unique texture of the instrument by carving all its surface with small radius gouges.
We finish the instrument with a few coats of Shellac. We use natural colored shellac for our ash instruments which ads a yellow – orange layer of color to the brown hues of the wood.
Naturally, wood grain and color vary with each instrument, each one being unique.
We use only high quality parts. The tuning pegs, tuning keys and strings are made in Germany.

♦ ITEM DETAILS:
✔ European Ash wood
✔ Natural Shellac Finish
✔ Color range from light brown to dark brown
✔ Metal strings (plain steel and silver coated steel)
✔ Chrome tuning pins made by Rubner in Germany

The instrument comes with a tuning key and a handmade textile bag.
You will also receive instructions on how to tune the lyre.
For more information after purchase you can contact us any time.

♦ PERSONALIZATION:
We can engrave on your instrument:
– name or initials
– a quote, wishes or other text
– a logo, image or clip art
Please contact us for further details on personalization.