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lyra

musical instrument

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design and use

  • bowl lyre
    In lyre

    …separately, as in the Greek lyra.

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  • koto
    In stringed instrument: Lyres

    …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…

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