lyres in English

noun
1
a stringed instrument like a small U-shaped harp with strings fixed to a crossbar, used especially in ancient Greece. Modern instruments of this type are found mainly in East Africa.
We also had this ‘wind harp,’ a lyre with gut strings, that we'd de-tuned and stuck out in the wind on the truck.

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1. Lyres propagated through the same areas, as far east as Estonia.

2. Anthropomorphic and zoomorphic shapes surmount many ancient harps and lyres

3. “The orchestra and choir have taken up a position to the east of the altar, clothed in fine linen with cymbals and stringed instruments, zithers, psalteries, lyres and graceful harps.

4. Accordions, basses, music box toys, cartons (musical instruments), carillons (musical instruments), clarinets, trumpets, double basses, cymbals, flutes, harps, lyres, mandolins, guitars, harmonicas, violins, violas, xylophones, organs, pianos, keyboards (musical instruments) and piano keys, music synthesisers, drums (musical instruments), triangles (musical instruments)