This instrument at a low price is the perfect gift for someone who wants to explore Greek folk music.

Greek Cretan lyra 

Original hand made instrument Cretan traditional lyra: 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-SI-n_mbNk

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Fingerboard : Walnut

Soundboard : Spruce

Body: Tilia tomentosa

Dogal Strings

Tuning of the lyra

G: 196Hz  -  D: 293,66  -  A:440Hz

·        Materials: Foam, Cordura

Cretan lyra hard foam case suitable for traveling

Light weight

Extremely durable

Fits most cretan lyras

Closes firmly with a zipper

It has one showlder strap

Externaly has cordura fabric

How to Play Cretan Lyra 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRl0MAyacAw

The Cretan lyra (Greek: Κρητική λύρα) is a Greek pear-shaped, three-stringed bowed musical instrument, central to the traditional music of Crete and other islands in the Dodecanese and the Aegean Archipelago, in Greece. The Cretan lyra is considered to be the most popular surviving form of the medieval Byzantine lyra, an ancestor of most European bowed instruments.

The lyra is held vertically on the player's lap, in the same way as a small viol, rather than being placed under the chin of the player like a violin. For normal right-handed playing, the player's right hand holds the bow. The strings are stopped by pressing the fingernails of the player's left hand against the side of the string, rather than by pressing the string against the fingerboard. This gives it a different tone from the violin. Older lyras (lyrakis) have one string which is normally not fingered and is used as a drone, playing the same note while tunes are played on the other two strings.