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lyre
string instrument from Greek classical antiquity, origin attributed to the god Hermes
Details
- Subclass of
- yoke lute, plucked string instrument
- Inception
- 3200 BCE
- culture
- Ancient Greece
- described by source
- Riemann's Music Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)
- Hornbostel-Sachs classification
- 321.21-5
- practiced by
- lyrist
- topic's main category
- Category:Lyres
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