Day 26 - A Song That You Can Play On An Instrument
In high school, I used to play for the school's drum and lyre corps. I really wanted to play the snare drum but a friend convinced me to audition for the lyre instead. (This friend switched to the drums, and I got stuck with the wimpy lyre. But that's another story.)
To the uninitiated, this is how a lyre looks like. But technically speaking, a lyre is a stringed musical instrument and this one's apparently called a
glockenspiel. It's probably called a lyre here because it's mounted in a lyre-shaped frame.
So, going back to the theme. I learned to play a few songs with it such as the
Lupang Hinirang (our National anthem, which we play every morning during the flag ceremony), the
Top Gun theme (somebody uploaded a video tutorial in
Youtube on how to play it on the piano, which is basically the same as playing it on the lyre.), the
Indiana Jones theme, and Head Over Heels by the Go-Go's.
This never fails to get people groovin'.
