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Luvay Lyre Harp, 7 Metal String - Orchestral Strings Instrument, with Tuning Wrench
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Luvay Lyre Harp, 7 Metal String - Orchestral Features
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Made of solid mahogany wood. Beautiful design
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7 steel strings, pure treble and warm bass
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Lightweight and Portable, easy to carry and play
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Great instrument for music lovers and players
About Luvay Lyre Harp, 7 Metal String - Orchestral
The lyre (Greek: λύρα, lýra) is a string instrument known for its use in Greek classical antiquity and later periods. The lyre is similar in appearance to a small harp but with distinct differences. In organology, lyres are defined as "yoke lutes", being lutes in which the strings are attached to a yoke that lies in the same plane as the sound-table and consists of two arms and a cross-bar. In Ancient Greece, recitations of lyric poetry were accompanied by lyre playing. The earliest picture of a lyre with seven strings appears in the famous sarcophagus of Hagia Triada (a Minoan settlement in Crete). The sarcophagus was used during the Mycenaean occupation of Crete (c. 1400 BC). The lyre of classical antiquity was ordinarily played by being strummed with a plectrum (pick), like a guitar or a zither, rather than being plucked with the fingers as with a harp. The fingers of the free hand silenced the unwanted strings in the chord. Later instruments, also called "lyres", were played with a bow in Europe and parts of the Middle East, namely the Arabic rebab and its descendants, including the Byzantine lyra.
