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Tag: tightening strings

Detail from red figure vase of a satyr holding a barbitos

Adding the Strings and Finishing touches to Prototype 1

March 10, 2020 mmcloughlin Leave a comment

My lyre is almost complete! Now to the strings. Strings on an ancient Barbitos were attached with pegs that wrapped…

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