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The lyre is an ancient stringed musical instrument in which strings are attached to a yoke—a frame made of two arms and a crossbar—that sits flat against the instrument's sound table. It belongs to the lute family of instruments and has been used across cultures for thousands of years, making it historically significant in the development of musical traditions.
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- Instrument.name
- Lyre
- Instrument.image
- Mousai Helikon Staatliche Antikensammlungen Schoen80 n1.jpg
- Instrument.image_capt
- Greek vase with muse playing the phorminx, a type of lyre
- Instrument.background
- string
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs
- 321.2
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs_desc
- Composite chordophone sounded with a plectrum
- Instrument.developed
- Sumer, Iraq, Bronze Age
- Instrument.related
- Barbitos Çeng Chang (instrument) Cithara or Kithara Crwth Endongo Harp Konghou Krar Rotte or Germanic lyre
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- Mousai Helikon Staatliche Antikensammlungen Schoen80 n1.jpg
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Article · Italiano
La lira è uno strumento musicale a corde che fa parte della famiglia dei liuti a giogo; è composto da una cassa armonica alla quale sono attaccati due bracci verticali, uniti da una trasversa. Le corde, in numero variabile secondo i modelli, sono tese tra la cassa armonica e la traversa. Apollo con la chelys-lyra, pittura vascolare greca, museo di Delfi, ca. 460 a.C.
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