LIGHT ON THE LYRE
Although that ancient stringed musical instrument, known as the lyre is. indelibly associated in men’s minds with the high civilisation attained by the early Greeks, there is no root word in their language as yet discovered to signify the instrument of that name. It is traditionally assumed that the lyre was invented in Egypt, but research rather definitely points to the fact that the Egyptians adopted the instrument from Babylona or Assyria, and that it finally found its way. into the hands of the Greeks, who developed its possibilities so wonderfully
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 40, 12 January 1949, Page 5
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95LIGHT ON THE LYRE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 40, 12 January 1949, Page 5
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