lyre

Summary

lyre ranks in the top 0.96% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,532 views/month, #748 of 77,819).^[1]

Key Facts

• lyre is a type of yoke lute^[2].
• lyre is a type of Plucked string instrument^[3].
• lyre's Commons category is recorded as Lyres^[4].
• 3200 BC marks the founding of lyre^[5].
• lyre's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Lyres^[6].
• lyre's described by source is recorded as Riemann's Music Dictionary^[7].
• lyre's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[8].
• lyre's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary^[9].
• lyre's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[10].
• lyre's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[11].
• lyre's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[12].
• lyre's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[13].
• lyre's Hornbostel-Sachs classification is recorded as 321.21-5^[14].
• lyre's different from is recorded as Lyre^[15].
• lyre's different from is recorded as Lyra^[16].
• lyre's culture is recorded as Ancient Greece^[17].
• lyre's practiced by is recorded as lyrist^[18].
• lyre's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[19].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include yoke lute^[2] and Plucked string instrument^[3].

Origins

3200 BC marks the founding of lyre^[5].

Influence

Things named for lyre include Lyra^[20], a constellation^[21].

Why It Matters

lyre ranks in the top 0.96% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,532 views/month, #748 of 77,819).^[1] lyre has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[22] lyre is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[23]

Entities named for lyre include Lyra^[20], a constellation^[21].