Would you like to make a Celtic musical instrument?

Not much is known about the ancient Celtic lyre only that it was used by Celtic bards since the 8th century BC and that it was later well known in Rome, where it was called lyra Its resonator was made from wood, while only few components were made from bones. The instrument's strings were made from animal intestine. The Gauls and other Celtic peoples regarded the crwth as a symbol of their independent musical culture,although they had probably received it from the Ancient Greeks. The Goths  invoked their tribal gods with prayers and chants, which they accompanied by lyre play. By the time of the Barbarian Invasions  in the 5th century AD the lyre had become the most important stringed instrument of the Germanic tribes and was a six-stringed wooden lyre with hollow ledger arms and wooden vortices in the ledger rod. The original Celtic lyre however came with different numbers of strings, as the Lyre of Paule, which is depicted on a statue from  Côtes d'Armor in Brittany, apparently had seven strings.


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