1 week ago - Kithara (cithara) — the version ... musicians. Lyre-guitar — a modern instrument that combines a guitar and a zither. Also called a "harp guitar". Phorminx — an ancient wooden-frame lyre intermediate in size between the smaller tortoise-shell lyre and larger kithara, which replaced it. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Klaus Wachsmann; Bo Lawergren; Ulrich Wegner; John Clark (2002). "Lyre (from Gk.; Lat. lyra)...

July 20, 1998 - The lyre, a stringed instrument with a U-shaped frame, held a significant position in ancient societies. In ancient Greece, it symbolized wisdom and moderation as an attribute of Apollo, the god of music and prophecy.

…lyre, krar (the ancient Greek lyra), has a bowl-shaped resonator and is emphatically secular in its use and connotations; indeed, Ethiopian and Eritrean tradition casts it as the instrument of Satan. The construction of this six-stringed instrument illustrates the sort of change that is of wide occurrence in contemporary instrument…

2 weeks ago - The lyre is a stringed musical instrument with a rich history that spans various ancient cultures, including the Egyptians, Greeks, and Germanic tribes. Commonly recognized for its distinctive U-shape, the lyre typically features several strings ...

May 11, 2026 - The Cretan lyra (Greek: Κρητική λύρα) is a pear-shaped three-stringed Greek lyra, a traditional musical instrument, central to the traditional music of Crete and other islands in the Dodecanese and the Aegean Archipelago, in Greece.

May 15, 2026 - The Byzantine lyra or lira (Greek: λύρα) was a medieval bowed string musical instrument in the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire. In its popular form, the lyra was a pear-shaped instrument with three to five strings, held upright and played by stopping the strings from the side with the ...

The Cretan Lyre (lyra), the three-stringed bowed musical instrument, is the dancing alert for local people and those who admire it's doric and vibrant sound, the principal instrument of Cretan traditional music that speaks to the cordial soul.

November 11, 2025 - In historical texts, the term 'latin lyra' is often used to refer to the lyre and its variations, highlighting its classification as a stringed instrument with deep roots in Greek and Latin civilizations. Folk lyres have more strings (10–19), tuned to modern scales. The ancient lyre played a seven-note scale, similar to contemporary musical scales.

Ancient Greek lyres were smaller in size and meant to be held with two hands, one to hold the base and the other to strum the strings. The instruments were often split into two varieties; the lyra and the kithara. Lyras were often associated with amateur musical practice, while the kithara ...

​LYRE (λυρα), an ancient musical instrument, in use among the Greeks, and undoubtedly derived by them from Asia. It consisted of a hollow body or sound-chest, from which were raised two arms, sometimes also hollow, which were curved both ...

July 20, 1998 - Lira, in music, a pear-shaped bowed instrument with three to five strings. Closely related to the medieval rebec and, like the rebec, a precursor of the medieval fiddle, the lira survives essentially unchanged in several Balkan folk instruments, ...

In fact, Apollo and Orpheus both used the same instrument, the first lyre ever made. When the cunning Greek deity Hermes (Roman Mercury) was only a few days old, he scooped out the innards of a mountain tortoise, strung it with cow gut and delighted in the sweet airs it produced. Unfortunately, the herd from which the gut had come had been stolen from Apollo, and the furious god went in search of the thief, swearing bloody vengeance upon him. The music produced by Hermes' lyre, however, eventually soothed Apollo's wrath and he left the infant god unpunished in return for the glorious-sounding new instrument.

The Lyre is a stringed musical instrument well known for its use in classical antiquity and later. The word comes from the Greek "λύρα" (lyra) and the earliest reference to the word is the Mycenaean Greek ru-ra-ta-e, meaning "lyrists", written ...

December 23, 2024 - The Lyre (lyra) is a musical instrument that belongs to the chordophone category and is specifically part of the bowed lute family. This definition indicates that the instrument falls under one of the lute subcategories, and in the Hornbostel-Sachs ...

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April 15, 2026 - However, in Greece and Rome, the existence of this instrument was so unfamiliar and its appearance has not been handed down to this day, so it was translated and described as a similar stringed instrument, a lyre.[4] In any case, since it is the first musical instrument made by God in Greek mythology , it is often used in Western countries along with treble clefs and notes as a symbol of music .

October 24, 2025 - If we consider that this instrument was the cornerstone of ancient Greek artistic, scientific, philosophical research – an instrument that, among other things, was played and studied by students in ancient Athens and other cities as a basic element of school education – an instrument that was the expression of the Apollonian Thought on life, in combination with the spirit of innovation, originality, and continuous evolution that inspired the scholars of the instrument and the wider society, we could easily conclude that the lyre would be the center of today’s musical developments.

The lyre is a simple stringed instrument, and the basis of the earliest recorded written music-theory, on Babylonian tablets c.2000 BC.

July 17, 2025 - A musical instrument of the chordophone family, the lyre-guitar was a type of guitar shaped to look like a lyre, popular as a fad-instrument in the late 1800s. It had six single courses, with a fretboard located between two curved arms recalling the shape of the ancient Greek kithara.