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Cretan lyre

Cretan lyre, Mediterranean instrument. Museum of the Mediterranean.

 

Cretan lyre, Mediterranean instrument. Museum of the Mediterranean.

 

The music of Crete is one of the oldest folk music styles in the world, and a bridge between Eastern and Western music. The lyre is a stringed instrument played with a bow that has barely changed since Byzantine times.

The Cretan lyre is the instrument that plays the characteristic folk tunes of the island; an instrument that unites different coastlines in the Mediterranean.

The Cretan lyre, despite the name, is not related to the lyre from Ancient Greece.

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