LEMF Instrument Exhibit: Benjamin Bagby, medieval harps
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- čas přidán 20. 03. 2021
- Limerick Early Music Festival
www.limerickearlymusic.com
Singer and director of Sequentia ensemble for medieval music Benjamin Bagby discusses and demonstrates three different 6-string harps after early medieval models from Oberflacht and Trossingen, reconstructed by Rainer Thurau.
I tried to replay the notes of your first played harp and found, that it is a pentatonic scale in (nearly) F. It was very interesting and new for me, how your explained, how the subset of notes was choosen, mostly coming from a construction of 5th. Many thanks for this interesting video.
Highly appreciated video. Specially the way to explore the tunings.
Thanks for sharing a superb presentation!
These harps are amazing. They are so simple but soundwise quite elaborate.
A very interesting and enjoyable presentation. Clear and concise explanation, and lovely examples. Thanks for sharing it with us! :)
Very enjoyable and informative.
Wonderful.
I recently made a lyre... the difference between strings is always astounding, it's like each string is its own character, and it lends so much to the music.
As for tuning... I also found that I just keep changing up tunings, even with 12 strings. When I was testing it out with 9, I definitely still adjusted it.
I'll make one of these next I think, should take a lot less time than this last one did if I'm only aiming at 6 strings with less tension.
I have a Trossingen Lyre (brighter instrument shown in the video) myself. Super easy to learn and beautiful sound. I believe to have read somewhere that lyres from this time were found with plectrums, so it is assumed they were mostly strummed. Strumming combines extremely well with the Hucbold tuning explained in the video.
Thanks for sharing!
May you tell me how or where to get a Trossinger harp? Thank you.
Laura
Eritreans strum their lyres and Amharas pluck theirs and their plucked music style is called Tizita and their tunings can be found by searching the word tuning (Tignit)
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Harp is a superior word. That Aside, I really wish i had one of these amazing instruments, Where can you obtain one?
In Ethiopia and Eritrea the lyre is called krar or kirar. Same word as Hebrew Kinor, violin. The tunings are called Tignit, and you can search that word to find English listings of different krar tunings and their names. I make Eritrean krars. I got kicked out of an Ethiopian Cultural Center once because I walked in with a krar strung with metal strings like in Eritrea instead of one with nylon strings like in Ethiopia.
Fascinating! Thank you for wacthing and writing in (and what an interesting anecdote re. getitng kicked out for the wrong kind of strings!)
What was name and author of the book about Gregorian chant you mentioned?
What keeps the tuning pegs in place? Is it just a pressure fitting?
Is it possible to buy one replica of the medieval harp?
You can certainly contact the maker of these harps, Rainer Thurau, at thurau-harps.com/. Best of luck!
I see on wiki that he's American, but doesn't his accent sound somewhat unusual?
West Frisian - clear as day, lol
@@hlysnan6418 That's an incredibly precise answer, thank you. Might I ask, out of keen curiousity and interest, how on Earth you can pinpoint it so specifically?
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