{"id":654,"date":"2011-12-23T20:07:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T04:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrenleecohen.com\/?p=654"},"modified":"2011-12-25T17:45:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T01:45:23","slug":"a-lyre-for-my-daughters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/a-lyre-for-my-daughters\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lyre for my Daughters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/a-lyre-for-my-daughters\/img_0313\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-655\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-655\" title=\"IMG_0313\" src=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_0313-224x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"383\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is my second Lyre, carved from a single piece of walnut with a padauk bridge. I used ultra-fine guitar strings (D, G, B and E). It is tuned to a pentatonic scale: D, E, G, A, B, D, E, which creates a gentle floating feel. The tone is quite mellow and can be amplified by placing it on a table.\u00c2\u00a0 The music dances about the central A, &#8220;Sun Tone&#8221;, and meanders without settling into a resolve &#8211; perfect for young children whose hearing does not crave the more grounded resolution of a major or minor scale. For them music floats just like their imaginative games which can flow fluidly from one theme to another without interruption.<\/p>\n<p>I am grateful to Luciana, who sewed a beautifully quilted case for it complete with a little pocket for the tuning wrench. She is a craftswoman extraordinaire. We will play it every night at our story time to punctuate the beginning and end of the stories as we prepare to go to sleep. Now all I have to do is come up with suitable melodies and lyrics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/a-lyre-for-my-daughters\/img_0308\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-656\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-656\" title=\"IMG_0308\" src=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_0308-224x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_0308-224x299.jpg 224w, https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_0308.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; This is my second Lyre, carved from a single piece of walnut with a padauk bridge. I used ultra-fine guitar strings (D, G, B and E). It is tuned to a pentatonic scale: D, E, G, A, B, D, E, which creates a gentle floating feel. The tone is quite mellow and can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,211,219,207,3],"tags":[84,246,249,228,167,224,250,225,24,223,230,227,231,245,229,226,23],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-guitar","category-lyre","category-social-art","category-workshops","tag-children","tag-education","tag-guitar","tag-guitar-strings","tag-imagination","tag-kinderharp","tag-lyre","tag-paduk","tag-participatory","tag-pentatonic","tag-storytime","tag-strings","tag-sun-tone","tag-toronto-waldorf-school","tag-tuning","tag-walnut","tag-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}