Pear-shaped lyra

  • 0480.1 004
    0480.1 004
0480.1 004
0480.1 004
0480.1 004
0480.1 004

OBJ480

Pear-shaped lyra

PEAR-SHAPED LYRA;

;

Ioannis Petrakis (1868 - 1963)

;

Fivos Anoyanakis

530 cm x 138 cm x 81.5 cm (Number of strings: 3, number of keys: 3, indicative string length: 260/308/260 mm, top of body length: 212 mm, top of body width: 138 mm, resonator height: 59 mm, saddle height: 22.5 mm.)

Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND 4

Pear-shaped lyra, with 3 strings, 530 mm in length. It has a simple headstock decorated with a crest-shaped extension at the top, 3 wooden keys, a saddle, a sound post and two "D"-shaped sound holes on the top side of its body. The strings at the bottom are tied to a piece of wire, which is threaded through a protrusion of the body. The instrument has engraved geometric designs and patterns on the top of the neck and on the front side of the headstock.