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lyre

Lyre, harp; made of gourd; rounded gourd with top cut off; carved piece of wood attached with fibre string through holes carved in closed end of gourd; second piece of wood attached to first, carved with nine holes at opposite end; piece of fibre strung between ends of sticks of wood.

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