In case you’re not into ancient musical instruments, a lyre is a small “U”-shaped harp that was played and enjoyed mostly in ancient Greece, but has since fallen out of favor.

In case you’re not into ancient musical instruments a lyre is a small U shaped harp that was played and enjoyed mostly in ancient Greece, but has since fallen out of favor.

It took five months and three tries, but he ended up in 2007 with an “egg-shaped” harp with a mahogany top and cherry frame. It weighs 4 1/2 pounds and is 20 inches long and 12 inches wide.

Brilliant Vega is the brightest star in Lyra the harp, a small constellation shaped like the handheld, U-shaped harp popular in ancient Greece. On April evenings, Lyra and Vega first appear low in ...

Extraordinary harp-shaped carnivorous sponge discovered living on the Pacific Ocean floor. Chondrocladia lyra lives at depths of 11,000ft of the coast of California ...