Rebirth of an Ancient Greek Lyre | Michael Levy


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A full HD spontaneous improvisation, for a magnificent modern recreation of an ancient Greek lyre sensation!

The lyre, handmade in modern Greece, is the Luthieros “Lyre of Thamyris”:

Lyre of Thamyris (11 strings) – ancient Greek lyre

According to Greek mythology, Thamyris was so proud of his skill that he boasted he could challenge the Muses. But when he competed against them, he lost and as a punishment for his arrogance, the muses blinded him. The story demonstrates that poetic inspiration, a gift of the gods, can be also taken away by the gods.

According to Pliny the Elder, Thamyris was the one who invented the Dorian mode – this improvisation is therefore in the original ancient Greek Dorian Mode (the equivalent intervals as E-E on the white notes of the piano; this was misnamed the ‘Phrygian’ mode in the Middle Ages)

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