Danish musical instruments

thumb|180px|right|A Bronze Age lur found in Brudevælte Mose, northeast of Lynge in Zealand (Denmark)|Zealand, [[Denmark]] thumb|180px|right|class=notpageimage |A modern lur from Norway, made of wood wrapped in birch bark A lur, also lure or lurr, is a long natural horn without finger holes that is played with a brass-type embouchure. Lurs can be straight or curved in various shapes. The purpose of the curves was to make long instruments easier to carry (e.g. for marching, like the modern sousaphone) and to avoid directing the loud noise at nearby people.

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type of natural trumpet made of spruce covered with birch bark

plucked string instrument widely used in north-western Europe from pre-Christian to medieval times

type of bowed lyre