Auris My Little Lyre, Pentatonic 7-String Lyre, d-e (LBP)
MY LITTLE LYRE
The children’s My Little Lyre, model LBP, is a stringed instrument with a wooden open resonating body. This children’s lyre allows particularly young children and beginner adults to practice free, basic music which is not bound to a base tone.
This is a basic pentatonic lyre for introduction of music to the child. This particular lyre is recommended for use with very young children at home, in preschool and kindergarten, with musical games, storytelling and much more.
This model is particularly good for unborn and newborn babies to hear as well as it is tuned higher and young babies hear at a higher frequency (which is why humans instinctively raise their voice pitch when speaking to newborns and infants).
HOW MY LITTLE LYRE IS DIFFERENT
The string set for this lyre is made for the smaller fingers of the child to play, as well as the adult. Due to its short string length the LBP model, My Little Lyre, can be tuned extremely high if desired. This lyre can be tuned as high as g’ – a’- c’’ – d’’- e ’’- g‘’-a’’-. This high tuning corresponds better with the hearing frequencies of very little inner ears, for example babies still in their mother’s womb or newborns, and this, plus the smaller, thinner string, is what makes My Little Lyre unique from other pentatonic lyres.
WHY A PENTATONIC SCALE
THE 7-STRINGED LYRE – is tuned to a pentatonic scale which allows the fingers to move freely over the strings and always produce a harmonic tune. With a pentatonic lyre, most playing sounds pleasant regardless of ability; with a diatonic lyre, you need to know how to actually play for your music to sound pleasant.
Because a pentatonic lyre sounds pleasant regardless, it’s a nice lyre to own to introduce children to the lyre and to soft music. They will enjoy the sounds they make with this lyre and be more inspired and interested to play than with a diatonic lyre and they will be exposed to a musical instrument more often.
It’s also great for a homeschool parent or primary teacher to use who hasn’t really had musical training on the lyre because pretty much anything they play sounds nice.
HEAR MY LITTLE LYRE
- Hear video My Little Lyre here
- Hear an Auris Soundclip here (this link also has helpful information about holding, playing, tuning and changing the strings of this lyre).
ACCESSORIES
Restring as needed with made for this model, LBP-55210075.
- Choroi String Oil
- Set of Replacement Strings: Auris 7-String Lyre, Pentatonic String
- Lyre Stand
- Tuning wrench for square shaped holes and Star shaped holes (regular length or long length)
DETAILS
- Auris
- maple wood
- approximate dimensions: 22 x 30 cm
- 7 strings
- range: d’ – e”
- Model LBP
- Recommended Age for free play is 5/6 years and older (with supervision)
- Listening Target Range is NEWBORN to age 2/3 when tuned to higher pitch or ANY AGE when not tuned to higher pitch; also great for baby to hear while in the womb
HOW TO HOLD AND RESTRING
How to hold the LBP model, how to play the LBP model, how to restring and how to tune pdf document 1 from Auris and pdf document 2
SMALL PARTS WARNING
⚠️WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD – Small parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
SHIPPING
Overnight, Express, Priority and Expedited processing and shipping are not available for Auris products. High-Value Auris instruments, like Lyes, are ordered on demand from the Auris distributor. This may extend delivery time by 1-3 business days.
