| 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 |
Photographs
