HISTORY
OF THE LYRE OF UR |
 The
Royal Graves at Ur with Lyres
|
The Baghdad Gold Lyre of Ur (now vandalized) |  "Scene
with lyre on cylinder seal"
|
 Our
playable authentic new version 2007 |
A Sumerian Lyre being played on the Standard of Ur (British Museum) |
Sumerian writing tablet
about music of the time |
THE
PROJECT TEAM |
 Project
team at Edinburgh Harp Festival |
 Bill
Taylor & Jennifer Sturdy
|  The
Lyre Group with Dr Lamia al Gualiani
|
 Mark
Harmer Sound Engineer and video producer |
 Ayad
Abbas poet and artist of Abu Dhabi
|
 Keith
Jobling |
Alun Evans, Goldsmith, of Simon Benney, Fine Metal Workers of London |
Maeve Lowings |
Jo Pond with Andy
Lowings |
MAKING
THE NEW LYRE |
 Daniel
Huff with the new Gold Bull's Head
|
Keith Jobling placing some of the 5,000 pieces of stone, shell
and lapis
|
Jonathan Letcher, Instrument maker, and Lyre
|
 Cindi
Pezzi making jewellery at London Metropolitan University |
Traditional Cameo Production |
Silversmith Jo Pond
|
Creating cameos with Liverpool University Laser Engineering
|
 Measuring
the Bull's Head at the British Museum
|
 Donation
of pure gold from Anglo Gold Ashanti
|
PERFORMANCE
and TALKS |

 Ayub
Ogada at Live 8 Africa calling
|

 Andy
Lowings at the Library of Congress |

 At
the Smithsonian Theatre Washington DC
|

 Playing
at the British Museum London
| 

With
John Humphreys. BBC Radio 4 Today
|

 Keith
Jobling at the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem |
 Iraqi
musician Tara Jaff and Ayub on BBC Radio 3
|

Bill Taylor and Jennifer Sturdy |
 Our
CD |
POSTERS |
5th Musical Archaeology
Conference in Berlin |
 Iraqi
Airways poster November
1970
|  The
Oriental Museum Durham |
 The
International Study Group for Musical Archaeology Conference |
 First
concert in central London at the Bolivar Hall |  The
Leeds Arabic Diaspora Conference |