Lyre: alternatives and connections

To tune or put in tune; to make melodious; to adjust, as one sound or musical instrument to another; as, to attune the voice to a harp.

A musical stringed instrument, similar in form to a guitar; a pandore.

A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is play…

A stringed instrument of the viol family, used for playing bass. See 3d Bass, n., and Violoncello.

An appliance consisting of an elastic rod, with a number of horse hairs stretched from end to end of it, used in playing on a stringed…

An ancient instrument resembling the harp.

A keyed stringed instrument, now superseded by the pianoforte. See Clarichord.

A composition (usually in symphonic form with three movements) in which one instrument (or two or three) stands out in bold relief aga…

Double bass; -- applied to any instrument of the same deep range as the stringed double bass; as, the contrabass ophicleide; the contr…

An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.

To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated su…

An ancient Greek musical instrument of ten strings, resembling the harp.

A kind of lyric poetry in honor of Bacchus, usually sung by a band of revelers to a flute accompaniment; hence, in general, a poem wri…

An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.

A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.

Of or pertaining to a stringed instrument.

A stringed instrument of music resembling the lute or the violin, but larger, and having six strings, three of silk covered with silve…

(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) undistinguished literary work produced to order.; "James Scully has observed that much of what is…