Enjoy this well-known Scottish tune played in various lyre versions.
Pentatonic 7-string lyre with Pickaso Rotary Bow.
Tuning: D4, E4, F#4, G4, A4, B4, D5
19-string acoustic lyre with Pickaso Rotary Bow.
The same lyre, played as you might expect, plucked with melody and harmony.
Lynda Lyre with wire strings.
Double strung played on 2 19-string acoustic lyres.
I call this The Wheels on the Bow? Because I’m using the Pickaso Rotary Bow. With 16-string solid body lyre. Enjoy!
Pentatonic 7-string with Pickaso Rotary Bow. There’s a learning curve with this as well, mostly getting the rosin on the bow wheel, but it’s much less of a learning curve than the standard bow models. It sounds good, and it’s fun!
Fireflies at Dusk was written by Catherine Guilbeau, from her book, Lyre Foundations . Enjoy it played as written on 19-string acoustic lyre.
This is the same piece on the same lyre, but played in 3/4 or waltz time.
And double strung, played on 2 19-string acoustic lyres. This is also played as written. The left hand is simply moved up an octave.
Double strung in 3/4, played in 2 different octaves.
16-string solid body lyre with Pickaso Rotary Bow.
Pentatonic 7-string lyre with Pickaso Rotary Bow. This one is played in E minor.
Tuning: D4, E4, F#4, G4, A4, B4, D5
Catherine’s video of the pieces in the book:
The German folk song we know as Wooden Heart in the United States, played on pentatonic 7-string lyre with Pickaso Guitar Bow, then plucked.
Tuning: D4, E4, F#4, G4, A4, B4, D5
16-string solid body lyre
This is an old French folk song, played first on 16-string solid body BJL lyre.
Pentatonic 7-string BJL lyre, both plucked and with Pickaso Guitar Bow.
Tuning: D4, E4, F#4, G4, A4, B4, D5.
And my double strung arrangement played on 2 19-string acoustic lyres.
I was once a tree
Now I am your instrument
Beauty scene and heard
Enjoy Oh! Susanna played on 7-string pentatonic BJL lyre with Pickaso Guitar Bow.
Tuning: D4, E4, F#4, G4, A4, B4, D5
Camptown Races played on the same lyre, but without bow.
Since the bow is pretty unusual, I thought I would add double strung arrangements as well. So, here they are on 2 19-string acoustic lyres.
This is a piece I wrote for healing. It is called Release. First, listen to the melody played on pentatonic 7-string lyre with Pickaso Guitar Bow.
16-string solid body lyre.
19-string acoustic lyre, with left hand variations using the low F3.
And my double strung arrangement on 2 19-string acoustic lyres.
Tunes:
Old MacDonald had a Farm
This Old Man
Are You Sleeping?
Lyre: 7-string pentatonic with Pickaso Guitar Bow
Tuning: D4, E4, F#4, G4, A4, B4, D5
And bonus double strung arrangements of these tunes played on 2 19-string acoustic lyres.
This is a piece I wrote several years ago. It sounds especially beautiful played on Brandon John Luthiery lyres with steel strings.
19-string acoustic lyre, played as originally composed
16-string solid body lyre, slight modifications because you don’t have the F3. Also, I forgot the intro. Oops!
Double strung is my favorite way to play this piece! Here I play 2 19-string acoustic BJL lyres.
And because I wrote it on this instrument, here it is on Lynda Lyre
Added 7/6/26
7-string pentatonic lyre with Pickaso Rotary Bow. This is the standard G major pentatonic tuning, and the melody is slightly modified.
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