lyre-guitar
Sign in to savethumb|A six-course (music)|course double-strung 12 string lyre-guitar at the [[Museu de la Música de Barcelona.|269x269px]] thumb|alt=Girl with a lyre-guitar|A postcard showing a girl playing a lyre-guitar, . The classical theme is typical of the period.|316x316px A musical instrument of the chordophone family, the lyre-guitar was a type of guitar shaped to look like a lyre, popular as a fad-instrument in the late 1800s. It had six single courses, with a fretboard located between two curved arms recalling the shape of the ancient Greek kithara. It was tuned and played like the conventional gu
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- guitar
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- Hornbostel-Sachs classification
- 321.322-5
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- Lyre-guitars
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Lyre-guitar luthiers
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
- Historical sources
- Sheet music
- Websites
- Recordings
- Museums
thumb|A six-course (music)|course double-strung 12 string lyre-guitar at the [[Museu de la Música de Barcelona.|269x269px]] thumb|alt=Girl with a lyre-guitar|A postcard showing a girl playing a lyre-guitar, . The classical theme is typical of the period.|316x316px A musical instrument of the chordophone family, the lyre-guitar was a type of guitar shaped to look like a lyre, popular as a fad-instrument in the late 1800s. It had six single courses, with a fretboard located between two curved arms recalling the shape of the ancient Greek kithara. It was tuned and played like the conventional guitar.
The lyre-guitar nearly always had a built-in pedestal allowing it to stand upright when not in use.
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