Camden Rose

The Eyster Family

For more than fifteen years, Jason and Diana Eyster have been making musical instruments that combine aesthetics, physics, and playability. Joined by their four children, Athena, Teddy, Harold, and Artemis, their home-based business has provided families around the world with lyres, flutes and thumb pianos, while serving as an incomparable home schooling experience.

Eyster lyres are primarily created from black cherry wood. While they will craft instruments of walnut or maple, cherry is their first choice for several reasons: it is locally available, it warps little, it is non-toxic, it carves well, and its cellular structure encourages a warm resonance for plucked metal strings. Cherry will also age beautifully both in appearance and in tone.

The Eyster Lyre company purchases lumber from mills that are “Sustainable Forestry” certified. This assures that the wood used in every lyre was procured with a concern for the health of the woodlot combined with an assurance of sustaining our precious natural resources for generations to come.