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Lyre
The lyre is a stringed musical instrument well known for its use in Classical Antiquity and later. The recitations of the Ancient Greeks were accompanied by lyre playing. The lyre of Classical Antiquity was ordinarily played by being strummed with a plectrum, like a guitar or a zither, rather than being plucked, like a harp. The fingers of the free hand silenced the unwanted strings in the chord.
I love the picture of the lyre. It’s beautiful! I am a writer, and we have a little writer’s group in the north woods of MN. We are in the midst of putting together a web page. I have written a little something that I would like on the home page, about the music of words, and mention that until the Renaisance, lyric poems were accompanied by the music of the lyre. This picture would look wonderful there. And I would of coourse give you credit. Very lovely site you have here! Thank you, Judi Schiller
No need to give me credit, I borrowed it from another site! I’m glad you enjoyed the site as a whole!