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[[Image:lyre.jpg|thumb|Lyre]]

[[Image:lyre.jpg|thumb|Lyre]]

The '''lyre''' is an ancient stringed instrument with the strings attached to a yoke with the soundchest on the same plane.  (Perhaps a better but less common description would be to liken the lyre to a long-horned bull with a bar between the tops of his horns and the strings running from the bar to the head (the soundchest).

The '''lyre''' is an ancient stringed instrument with the strings attached to a yoke with the soundchest on the same plane.  Perhaps a better but less common description would be to liken the lyre to a long-horned bull with a bar between the tops of his horns and the strings running from the bar to the head (the soundchest).

It dates back at least as far as the third millennium B.C. in [[Mesopotamia]] and appeared in the [[Greek]] world in the earliest times. [[Greek Mythology]] has it being invented by [[Hermes]] with its greatest exponent being [[Orpheus]].  With its big brother, the Kithara, it became the most popular instrument of the classical Greek and Roman cultures.

It dates back at least as far as the third millennium B.C. in [[Mesopotamia]] and appeared in the [[Greek]] world in the earliest times. [[Greek Mythology]] has it being invented by [[Hermes]] with its greatest exponent being [[Orpheus]].  With its big brother, the Kithara, it became the most popular instrument of the classical Greek and Roman cultures.