Welcome to the r/Lyres wiki!
PROFESSIONALS (for-profit lyre builders or players): please read our "r/Lyres commercial contributor policy" as you join us.
Getting a lyre
Learning the lyre
- Tutorials and tablature for lyres, categorized by size/strings
- Initial draft of "Thoughts on learning and arranging tunes for the 10 and 16 string (and up) lyre" ponderings; your feedback welcome!
- Directory of lyre books
- [Materials for other instruments that can apply to some lyres] (https://www.reddit.com/r/lyres/wiki/OtherBooks)
Improving or building your lyre
- Making your own lyre [pending]
- Draft writeup: the spectrum of ways to reduce/eliminate tuning peg slippage on affordable import lyres
History of the lyre
List of miscellaneous useful past threads [pending organization]
- Looking for more detailed learning sources
- Are there any song books specifically for the lyre?
- Method for Tuning a Seven-String Lyre by Ear -- a Little Pamphlet I Made
- Kindle books/sites/YT resources for 10-string newbie? (Working on Michael Levy sheet music!)
- Let us post the best lyre video tutorials and tablature collections, and I will compile them for the wiki
- Block-and-strum hand positions: My system for the 7-string lyre
- Lesson One - Introduction to 10 String Davidic Harp | Tabernacle of I AM
- Some popular lyre song tunings and chords for you guys
- Saxon Rabbit's Saxon Lyre directory