Greek Musical Instruments

Greek Musical Instrument

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Clipart pictures of several ancient Greek musical instruments, including many examples of the well-known Greek lyre.

Auletris
"Auletris.- Performer on the double flute or diaulos. (From a Greek red-figured vase; 5th century B.C.)"-Whitney, 1902....

Chelys
"Chelys, from a vase in the British Museum, where also are fragments of such an instrument, the back of which is of shell." —The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1903...

Cithara
A seven-stringed lyre with a deep, wooden sounding box. Primarily used by the ancient Greeks, this instrument was more complex then the lyra, used by musical professionals....

Cithara
An illustration of a man playing the cithara....

Crotalum
"A kind of cymbal. It appears to have been a split reed or cane, which clattered when shaken with the hand. Women who played on the crotalun were termed crotalistriae. The annexed cut represents one ...

Double Pipes
"Ancient Greek Double Pipes. Elgin Collection, British Museum." — The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1910...

Greek_Lyres
"Greek Lyres" — Morey, 1903...

Keras
Keras ...

Keras
Keras ...

Lyra
"A lyre, one of the most ancient musical instruments of the stringed kind. The Greeks attributed the invention of the lyre to Mercury, who is said to have formed the instrument of a tortoiseshell, ove...

Lyre
Timotheus's harp with nine strings...

Lyre
A kind of harp much used by the ancients....

Lyre
A stringed musical instrument well known for its use in Classical Antiquity....

Lyre
This illustration shows an ancient lyre. It was fixed with 6 strings all tuned differently....

Lyre
A stringed musical instrument well known for its use in Classical Antiquity. The recitations of the Ancient Greeks were accompanied by it....

Lyre
A stringed instrument well known for its use in Classical Antiquity. It was used mainly by the Ancient Greeks....

Lyre
A lyre...

Lyre
"Cithara or Phorminx, from a vase in the British Museum. Best period of Greek art." —The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1903...

Lyre
"Two forms of the old Greek lyre." -Foster, 1921...

Lyres, Greek
"Greek lyres"...

Pipe with seven reeds
Pipe with seven reeds...

Pipe, Greek funeral
A woman plays a Greek funeral pipe in the funeral procession of Hector....

Pipes, Pan
A primative musical instrument consisting of a graduated series of tubes of cane, wood, metal, or stone, closed at the lower end. ...

Pipes, Pan's
Also known as the syrinex is the earliest example of a graduated series of open-pipes, with a very obvious resemblance to a flute stop...

Syrinx
"Syrinx, the Pan's pipe, or Pandean pipe, was the appropriate musical instrument of the Arcadian and other Grecian shepherds, and was regarded by them as the invention of Pan, their tutelary god. When...

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	Auletris "Auletris.- Performer on the double flute or diaulos. (From a Greek red-figured vase; 5th century B.C.)"-Whitney, 1902....
	Chelys "Chelys, from a vase in the British Museum, where also are fragments of such an instrument, the back of which is of shell." —The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1903...
	Cithara A seven-stringed lyre with a deep, wooden sounding box. Primarily used by the ancient Greeks, this instrument was more complex then the lyra, used by musical professionals....
	Cithara An illustration of a man playing the cithara....
	Crotalum "A kind of cymbal. It appears to have been a split reed or cane, which clattered when shaken with the hand. Women who played on the crotalun were termed crotalistriae. The annexed cut represents one ...
	Double Pipes "Ancient Greek Double Pipes. Elgin Collection, British Museum." — The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1910...
	Greek_Lyres "Greek Lyres" — Morey, 1903...
	Keras Keras ...
	Keras Keras ...
	Lyra "A lyre, one of the most ancient musical instruments of the stringed kind. The Greeks attributed the invention of the lyre to Mercury, who is said to have formed the instrument of a tortoiseshell, ove...
	Lyre Timotheus's harp with nine strings...
	Lyre A kind of harp much used by the ancients....
	Lyre A stringed musical instrument well known for its use in Classical Antiquity....
	Lyre This illustration shows an ancient lyre. It was fixed with 6 strings all tuned differently....
	Lyre A stringed musical instrument well known for its use in Classical Antiquity. The recitations of the Ancient Greeks were accompanied by it....
	Lyre A stringed instrument well known for its use in Classical Antiquity. It was used mainly by the Ancient Greeks....
	Lyre A lyre...
	Lyre "Cithara or Phorminx, from a vase in the British Museum. Best period of Greek art." —The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1903...
	Lyre "Two forms of the old Greek lyre." -Foster, 1921...
	Lyres, Greek "Greek lyres"...
	Pipe with seven reeds Pipe with seven reeds...
	Pipe, Greek funeral A woman plays a Greek funeral pipe in the funeral procession of Hector....
	Pipes, Pan A primative musical instrument consisting of a graduated series of tubes of cane, wood, metal, or stone, closed at the lower end. ...
	Pipes, Pan's Also known as the syrinex is the earliest example of a graduated series of open-pipes, with a very obvious resemblance to a flute stop...
	Syrinx "Syrinx, the Pan's pipe, or Pandean pipe, was the appropriate musical instrument of the Arcadian and other Grecian shepherds, and was regarded by them as the invention of Pan, their tutelary god. When...