Cretan lira

Cretan lira

Infobox Instrument
name=λύρα
names=Cretan lyra, Cretan lira



classification=
*Bowed string instrument
range=
related=
* Kemenche
* Igil
* Byzaanchy
* Kyl kyyak
* Gadulka
* Huqin
* Gudok
* Ghaychak

The lira (Greek: λύρα) is a musical instrument central to the traditional music of Crete in Greece. The three-stringed lira is played with a bow. It is closely related to the Pontian kemenche. Noted Cretan lira players include Kostas Mountakis, Thanassis Skordalos, and Psarantonis. Today in Rhodes, Yiannis Kladakis is very well known for playing this type of lira.

The lira, sometimes spelled lyra, is often confused with the lyre, a harp-like stringed instrument which was developed in ancient Greece.

External Links

* [http://www.umbc.edu/eol/3/magrini/lyra.htm Magrini, Tullia. 1997. The Cretan lyra and the Influence of Violin. Ethnomusicology OnLine 3]


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