Introducing the Lirone

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[jsaidler]

- How many strings would you like on your instrument?
- yes.

[fleetingmoment]

It produces such a beautiful layered sound.

[vilosworld]

Me who is still struggling to learn a 4 string violin after watching this: you've got my respect

[paulusrex]

Love the sound, it sounds like an entire viols consort by itself.

[SuperVistaprint]

Beautiful. Reminded me a lot of an organ

[Kargbo-Reffell_Music]

Rennaisance and early baroque stringed instruments are so cool.

[sicilline]

It’s gorgeous!!! I love the sound so much

[PhantomLord]

The baroque era was truly the wild west of instrument making.

Luthier: "so how many strings you want on this thing?"

Da vinci's boy: "yes"

[PaulLefebvre]

The shape of it looks exactly like what a child would have drawn from memory if asked to draw a cello 😂

[juliegill]

I've never seen and not heard of that instrument before, and I first started learning music more than 40 years ago. That was really interesting, thank you.

With my very best wishes, Julie Gill, Glasgow, Scotland.

[xavierhuc]

I want to hear Moondog's Bird's Lament played on a quartet of these

[hannesheinz]

very special but it has a incredible mellow Renaissance sound!

[M.B.]

Beautiful and very interesting instrument with also a beautiful sound! 🎶🎼🎵

[SomeoneBeginingWithI]

It's a beautiful sound, would be lovely to hear it more often. I imagine it's quite difficult to learn to play, with so many strings Thank you for sharing!

[tamentatsu]

Impressive!🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 the talent it takes to play that many string’s must be incredible. Gorgeous instrument and very emotional sounding

[implayingsomebass]

That except is amazing, I need to listen to that piece now!

[bgaona]

Like a string consort in one instrument!

[shohrehshakoory]

Fascinating💙 sound. Can you recommend more pieces written for this instrument?

[heron]

It sounds like an entire consort of viols

[nilsfrederking]

It must be quite difficult to control on which strings you play, as the curvature of the bridge is so flat and there are so many strings. Very interesting it has such a sculpted soundboard