The Dragon Lyre

I planned to have a multineck with a harp in the Exotic Guitar series, and the dragon's image fit the configuration.

Although this is a modern instrument with internal electronics, I wanted it to have a medieval appearance similar to classical lutes and citterns I've built.

This instrument almost feels like a portable Harpsichord since you can play passages on the 6 and 12 string necks over chords that have been strummed on the Harp. With so many strings, there's a sympathetic vibration for every note you play.

As a stringed instrument collector, I'd often fantasize about traveling to the far ends of the earth to bring back the rarest and most exotic instrument. In our modern global village this is impossible since the same instruments I've seen in sitar shops in India for example are sold in Indian craft shops in any large North American city.

The instruments I wanted, only existed in the land of my imagination.