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The lyre is similar in appearance to a small harp but with distinct differences.
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However, when Orfeo takes up his lyre and plays, Caronte is soothed into sleep.
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The lyre was held or cradled in one arm and hand and plucked with the other hand.
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Nero watched from his palace on the Palatine Hill singing and playing the lyre.
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Near him were lion cubs, a giraffe and a snake listening to him playing a lyre.
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The lyre was used to accompany others or even oneself for recitation and song.
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However these lyre-shaped markings become indistinct as the slugs grow larger.
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Apollo, as the god of music, gave Orpheus a golden lyre and taught him to play it.
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There's a race to locate a dreadfully dangerous talisman, the lost lyre of Orpheus.
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- A harp used by ancient Greeks for accompaniment
- The lyre (Greek: u03BBu03CDu03C1u03B1, lu00FDra) is a string instrument known for its use in Greek classical antiquity and later periods. The lyre is similar in appearance to a small harp but with distinct differences. The word comes via Latin from the Greek; the earliest reference to the word is the Mycenaean Greek ru-ra-ta-e, meaning "lyrists" and written in the Linear B script...
- A Lyrebird is either of two species of ground-dwelling Australian birds, most notable for their superb ability to mimic natural and artificial sounds from their environment. Lyrebirds have unique plumes of neutral coloured tailfeathers.
- Lyre (An Ladhar in Irish) is a small village in northern County Cork, Ireland, approximately 3 km from the village of Nad.
- The use of vine training systems in viticulture is aimed primarily to assist in canopy management with finding the balance in enough foliage to facilitate photosynthesis without excessive shading that could impede grape ripening or promote grape diseases. ...
- (The Lyres) Lyres (sometimes miscredited as The Lyres) are a Boston-area alternative rock musical group led by Jeff "Monoman" Conolly. Lyres were founded in 1979 following the breakup of DMZ. Their most popular songs included "What A Girl Can't Do" and "Help You Ann". ...
- A stringed musical instrument
- To dream of listening to the music of a lyre, foretells chaste pleasures and congenial companionship. Business will run smoothly. For a young woman to dream of playing on one, denotes that she will enjoy the undivided affection of a worthy man.
- The lower central member of a grand piano; it carries the pedals and pedal rods. The slanting braces have been called "monkey tails" ever since the days when these were ornately carved and convoluted wooden features.
