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Attaching the Goat Skin to the Frame of My Final Lyre

March 22, 2020 mmcloughlin Leave a comment

The rubber cement did harden the fabric I attached to the shell, and firmly attached the arms to the base.…

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Filed under: boiling, final lyre, goat skin, mistake, super glue, turtle shell
Goat skin done boiling being laid across bowl of lyre frame as the process to attach it to the frame begins

Finishing Up My Second Prototype and Further Barbitos Planning

March 20, 2020 mmcloughlin 1 Comment

Crossbar and arms of lyre holding the strings, which have wooden pegs attached to them. The pegs (2 inch pieces of wood) dangle from the crossbar loosely and all over the place because the strings (clear fishing line) cannot properly be wound around it

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Filed under: goat skin, lyre making, second prototype, strings, tuning

Attaching the Goat Skin to the base on Prototype 1

March 3, 2020 mmcloughlin 2 Comments

The goat skin for my drum came in a rolled up cardboard tube, a sheaf of really thin parchment like…

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Filed under: boiling, first prototype, goat skin, hot glue, learning
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