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Re: Sounds of Music B
Posted: March 27th, 2014, 4:05 pm
by olyweeah
vennowsah wrote:What size and type of strings would you guys recommend for a lyre? I got some steel strings at the local music store, but it was very stiff, and hard to wrap around the screws I'm using for as tuners. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
I'm making a zither and I'm using 0.20 music wire (
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B002A4M7L ... 011&sr=1-6). It's fairly easy to twist (granted, you need to use pliers or something). It's about the thickness of an E string on the violin (but they make thinner ones tooo)... Oh and the fact that there are 234.25' is good
my partner calculated that we can mess up 11 times per string and still have wire left over.
Hope I helped
Re: Sounds of Music B
Posted: March 27th, 2014, 4:54 pm
by silverheart7
vennowsah wrote:What size and type of strings would you guys recommend for a lyre? I got some steel strings at the local music store, but it was very stiff, and hard to wrap around the screws I'm using for as tuners. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
I used steel strings for a kinor harp (similar to a lyre) last year, and it was really difficult to use as you said. Nylon fishing leader can make good string substitutes, or so I've found. Plus it's cheap and comes in large amounts so there's a lot of room for error if that's the sound you're looking for.
Re: Sounds of Music B
Posted: March 28th, 2014, 9:09 pm
by vennowsah
Thanks for the advice! I thought I would end up having to use the instrument for Regionals again, but I was able to get the strings to work today. ^_^
Re: Sounds of Music B
Posted: April 1st, 2014, 4:29 pm
by Algorhythmic
Okay, I have now officially given up on looking this up because everyone has a different answer.
HOW DO YOU CORRECTLY PRONOUNCE TIMBRE?
Re: Sounds of Music B
Posted: April 1st, 2014, 4:36 pm
by olyweeah
Algorhythmic wrote:Okay, I have now officially given up on looking this up because everyone has a different answer.
HOW DO Glorious Lord and Savior Robotman the Honorable CORRECTLY PRONOUNCE TIMitBRE?
I say it like 'timber'... Idk if that's right though. The judges probably will know what you're talking about either way.
Re: Sounds of Music B
Posted: April 1st, 2014, 5:14 pm
by knittingfrenzy18
The correct pronounciation is "tamber".
However, it is not spelled "tamber", or "tambre", or "timbar", or "tambir", or "timber", etc...
(inside jokes
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Re: Sounds of Music B
Posted: April 1st, 2014, 5:44 pm
by Algorhythmic
What kind of "a"? Like the "a" in "tall" or in "map"?
Re: Sounds of Music B
Posted: April 2nd, 2014, 6:38 pm
by olyweeah
Okay, so does anyone know a good way to get eye screws to stay where you want then to? I have the state competition next Saturday (the 12), and me and my partner (given the fact that this is the first year our school is participating, and the fact that we only got a month the build the instruments and prepare for a number of extra events are kind of lost. Our "pegs" (aka eye screws) just will not stay in place and we are tempted to stay crying every single time we try to tune a string. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you
Re: Sounds of Music B
Posted: April 2nd, 2014, 7:19 pm
by jennyk
Re: Sounds of Music B
Posted: April 2nd, 2014, 7:57 pm
by asthedeer
From Meriam webster-
tim·bre
noun \ˈtam-bər, ˈtim-; ˈtam(brə)\
: the quality of the sound made by a particular voice or musical instrument
i'm not even on SoM!
Algorhythmic wrote:What kind of "a"? Like the "a" in "tall" or in "map"?