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In the 9th century, one of the instruments that cythara was actively used to name was a large plucked or strummed instrument; pictures show it being played with a plectrum. [2] Pictures of the instrument illustrated in the Stuttgart Psalter all have the word "cythara" near the instrument in the text. [ 2 ]
The earliest reference to the word "lyre" is the Mycenaean Greek ru-ra-ta-e, meaning "lyrists" and written in the Linear B script. [5] In classical Greek, the word "lyre" could either refer specifically to an amateur instrument, which is a smaller version of the professional cithara and eastern-Aegean barbiton, or "lyre" can refer generally to all three instruments as a family. [6]
A six-course double-strung 12 string lyre-guitar at the Museu de la Música de Barcelona. A postcard showing a girl playing a lyre-guitar, c. 1870. The classical theme is typical of the period. 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 ...
Guitar-like instrument, most commonly with ten strings in two courses and made from an armadillo back 321.321-6: Philippines: Kudyapi [115] rondalla plucked chordophone with 14 strings tuned F# B E A D G. 321.321: Polynesia: nose flute [116] Flute, made from a single piece of bamboo, with three holes to blow into from the nostrils, with ...
Corinthian order: The Corinthian order is the last developed of the three principal classical orders of ancient Greek and Roman architecture this style of Architecture was mostly invented in Athens based on its other city state Corinth. Compound Pulley: Archimedes of Syracuse invented the first compound pulleys. [26]
Five-string lyre from the Durham Cassiodorus, 8th-century A.D., England King David with his lyre, Vespasian Psalter, 8th century A.D. Kravic lyre, excavated at the Kravic farm in Numedal, Norway. Made of pine with seven strings. Woman with lyre, Germany circa 1125-1150, from the Zwiefalten Passionale: Monochord
the common lyra (Greek: λύρα κοινή), popular in the island today; designed based on the combination of lyraki with the violin. The influence of the violin caused the transformation of many features of the old form of Cretan Lyra ( lyraki ) into the contemporary lyra, including its tuning, performance practice, and repertory .
Lutes are stringed musical instruments that include a body and "a neck which serves both as a handle and as a means of stretching the strings beyond the body". [1]The lute family includes not only short-necked plucked lutes such as the lute, oud, pipa, guitar, citole, gittern, mandore, rubab, and gambus and long-necked plucked lutes such as banjo, tanbura, bağlama, bouzouki, veena, theorbo ...