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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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Key facts
- 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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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- Plucked string instrument
- Image
- Mousai Helikon Staatliche Antikensammlungen Schoen80 n1.jpg
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- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- Commons category
- Lyres
- Hornbostel-Sachs classification
- 321.21-5
- different from
- Lyra
- culture
- Ancient Greece
- inception
- 3200-00-00
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