Choroi 16-String Bordun Lyre

MAPLE OR CHERRY WOOD The Choroi Bordun Lyre is a 16 String Lyre created from Maple or cherry wood. This Bordun Lyre is a versatile instrument, used primarily in groups. Tuned to chords and notes, it provides an extremely easy way for accompanying songs. The strings bass and treble are tensioned across the body facilitating on the one hand differentiations of dark and light sounds but also accompaniment in various scales. STEEL STRINGS 16 steel strings are in 2 rows. The basic descant tuning is treble strings: d'-e'-f#'-g'-a'-b'-c#''-d'' bass strings: d-a-a-d'-d'-d' All strings can be re-tuned within the range of a fourth (a minor third up or down) from the basic tuning.   LISTEN TO THE BORDUN LYRE HERE: Maple Bordun Lyre Cherry Wood Bordun Lyre   EXCELLENT CRAFTSMANSHIP The Choroi lyres and harps were created through a striving for a characteristic radiant tone deriving its intensity from the properties of the different types of wood used in their construction. Through carefully