Ancient Music - Oldest Complete Song "Epitaph Of Seikolos" - Greek Lyre, Har-Mose Lute

In this next set, I'll be using replicas of some of the most ancient instruments in the world, and since these are hard to come by, I built them myself. The lyre is referred to in both Greek and Roman mythology. It has seven strings. The back is made from a turtle shell. The face is a calfskin. It has two animal horns and a wooden crossbeam. In many of the images, we can see that it is strummed or plucked with a plectrum. The ancient lute is made in a similar fashion, with a turtle shell back, calfskin face, and an animal horn plectrum, but this one has a wooden neck and three strings. The harmos lute is the oldest surviving lute in existence, from 1490 BC. It was discovered in an excavation of an ancient Egyptian tomb, and I constructed the instrument from wood, calfskin, and rope. Now you're about to hear an improvisation on that ancient lute, but first I'm going to sing the oldest surviving song in the world. This is an ancient Greek song called Epitaph of Siculus, and it comes to us as an engraving on a tombstone. While you live, shine. Have no grief at all. Life exists only for a short while, and time demands its due.