Lyre Lyre pants on fire...

Rebekah recently opened a new pressed flower art shop in a Sanford flea market - and while there helping her set up, I found a six-in-line guitar tuner set (probably half of a 12-string set) in one of her neighbor's shop.

That inspired me to build a Hutton Soo style lyre from a cigar box. (The pic is an early test assembly - before the pyrography was done.)

Our friend Robin wasn't familiar with the word "Lyre" when I showed it to her - so she chanted "liar liar pants on fire" while laughing at the word... Rachel (Rebekah's daughter) said, "you should use that for the pyrography." I had been planning something else, but the pants-on-fire idea was better.

Now all I needed was to come up with some music that could be played with only 6 notes.

Well, the Sutton Hoo lyre was medieval - so I borrowed a medieval dance form, the Estampie, and wrote Nova Stamfo Unua (128 kps mp3).