I thought this was interesting for a couple of reasons. First, it is a performance of the oldest music that was written down (complete with instructions on stringing and tuning the instrument, a lyre, and a lesson on how to play the tune carved into cuneiform tablets) that has been found by archaeologists.
Second, we tend to think of the lyre as a harp-like thing with a few strings that made very soft little noises, when in fact it was capable of complex music using the strings, muting, nodes, harmonics, etc., and they were actually loud acoustic instruments often played with a combination of fingers and pick!
And so I present music from 1400 BC Canaan:
Oh you want older? How about a 5000 year old Lyre reproduction based on an actual instrument discovered in Ur?
The PRS Dragon of its day? Hell yes, I was there! I'm that old!
Second, we tend to think of the lyre as a harp-like thing with a few strings that made very soft little noises, when in fact it was capable of complex music using the strings, muting, nodes, harmonics, etc., and they were actually loud acoustic instruments often played with a combination of fingers and pick!
And so I present music from 1400 BC Canaan:
Oh you want older? How about a 5000 year old Lyre reproduction based on an actual instrument discovered in Ur?
The PRS Dragon of its day? Hell yes, I was there! I'm that old!
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