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Cretan lyra
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 Various models of the Cretan lyra at the museum of Greek traditional instruments, Athens. | |
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| Other names | Cretan lyra/lira, Aegean lyra |
| Hornbostel–Sachs classification | 321.321-71 (Necked bowl lute sounded by a bow) |
| Developed | 10th century AD (est) |
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The Cretan lyra (Greek: Κρητική λύρα) is a pear-shaped three-stringed Greek Violin, a traditional musical instrument, central to the traditional music of Crete and other islands in the Dodecanese and the Aegean Archipelago, in Greece. The Cretan lyra is considered to be the most popular surviving form of the medieval Byzantine lyra, an ancestor of most European bowed instruments.
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