====== The Resonator Slide Lyre of Blind Turnip Gustafson aka The Historical Abomination ======

It all started with a well meaning gift...
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Haraldr Bassi gave me a small funnel beaker.  I am told it started life as a telephone or electric line insulator. 
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At the time I had with me my repro [[https://www.chorder.org/~priestdo/lyre.html|Anglo Saxon Lyre]]. So, naturally((I have since been told there was //nothing// natural about it.)) I re-tuned the lyre into an approximation of a modern open G tuning and to my knowledge, the first slide lyre was strummed.

A small repertoire of songs started to suggest themselves, bad filks of early 20th century Delta Blues mostly, and //The Southern Scandinavian Sad Song Tradition// was whelped... Along with it a name emerged of a clumsy man who rode the waves and sang... Blind Turnip Gustafson.   

On returning home from that Pensic, it became clear that the resonator parts kit I had purchased was not going to be made into a guitar, but instead, a slide lyre.
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The cone was deeper than the thickness of the extant lyres, so rather than make the body deeper, I added my old center grip round shield boss to the back of the body.  It seemed the right choice.