lyre

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But by the time you’re forty you will be good at it, modulo quitting because the lyre is not for you.

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Quick take

Any instrument of the same musicological classification; any yoke lute.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of lyre gathered in one view.

noun

Any instrument of the same musicological classification; any yoke lute.

noun

A lyre-shaped sheet music holder that attaches to a wind instrument when a music stand is impractical.

verb

(rare) to play the lyre

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for lyre.

noun

Any instrument of the same musicological classification; any yoke lute.

noun

A lyre-shaped sheet music holder that attaches to a wind instrument when a music stand is impractical.

verb

(rare) to play the lyre

noun

(music) An ancient stringed musical instrument (a yoke lute chordophone) of Greek origin, consisting of two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke.

Example sentences

But by the time you’re forty you will be good at it, modulo quitting because the lyre is not for you.

Bill Gates If you decide to learn the lyre today, a year hence you’ll still be a beginner.

Mantis shrimps are way better at vision than we are and lyre birds are way better at vocalization.

Search YT for 'lyre bird imitating chainsaw' for a choice of vids.

More likely they learned to play the lyre and sing ballads.

The lyre was great, but the tune needed more cowbell.

And the shape and size of the Lyre plus knowledge about the materials used could give a fair approximation of what the pitch range should be.

Instruments like the lyre (second video) are most easily tuned to themselves, so I see no basis for the presumption about that either.

This is why the Trickster Gods, Hermes for example, are both the Gods of art (lyre, communication, storytelling) and the Gods of randomness/fortune.

I suspect that if you counted 1-2-3-4 to Sappho she'd just look at you funny and throw her lyre at you or something.

I build and play lyres, and there's a thriving community of lyre players in Japan who have put a lot of videos on YouTube.

A story that stood by me is the one of the lyre bird and the hunt to near extinction in the early 1900s for their impressive tail feathers.

Quote examples

I'm building lyres, and many lyre people are from that "A432 resonates with the universe" crowd, so I've been using it — and I can't deny that there seems to be a sweet spot in sound for a lot of instruments at that pitch.

' If, in like manner, the shuttle would weave and the plectrum touch the lyre without a hand to guide them, chief workmen would not want servants, nor masters slaves." [1] Of course society could have gotten by without slavery, but it wouldn't have been as convenient, particularly for the wealthy and political classes who were the exact sort that could afford to own slaves.