I ask this honestly, because I really don't know. How exactly is a lyre played? My best guess would put it somewhere similar to a harp?
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Well, that’s actually really complicated, because lyre is a broad classification of a number of string insturments.
Some lyres are plucked, some are designed to be played with a bow string. I actually play mine with a pick like the original lyres.
This can give you some historical information.
And here’s a video of a Contrabass Lyre being tested.
What I play when preforming live is the closest approximation of the definition of the word lyre, which sort of just looks like a small harp. But I’ve mentioned before that I actually own three lyres. One of them is a concert-style cithara. That’s what I typically record on.
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