The works of God...

Still thinking about what kind of music can be played on an instrument limited to six notes like my new lyre.

Well, the ancient Greeks - back in Homer's time - played a 4 string lyre. Earlier Mycenean Greeks seem to have borrowed the Sumerian 7 note scale, but the Iron age Greeks wiped it out from Greece. Then Pythagoras borrowed it from the Sumerins (or Assyrians by that time) again, and we still use it today.

But the four string lyre Greeks didn't write much about music theory, so we really don't know what they played on it.

OTOH, some African musics still use a 4 string lyre. I haven't actually heard African 4 string lyre music, but often, African musicians use their string instruments almost like a drum to set up a groove under their singing.

So, I thought I'd try this with my 6 string lyre.

Here's a Yoruba song I learned from Ken Porter in Boston (who accompanies himself on drum when he sings it): Ishe Oluwa Koleba Jeo (128 kps mp3). The title is the entire lyric and means "The works of God cannot be destroyed.