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- found: New Grove dict. of mus. WWW site, Mar. 29, 2007(A plucked, guitar-like string instrument with a sound box shaped in the image of the ancient Greek lyre. It is classified in the Hornbostel-Sachs system as a chordophone; under Guitar/7. Variants of the classical guitar: 19th-century variant; had two curved arms (recalling the Ancient Greek lyre) in place of the upper bout)
- found: New Grove Online May 13, 2013:lyre-guitar (Its popularity grew in mid-18th-century France; with the general expansion of French influence during the Napoleonic era it spread to Italy, Germany, Russia, Sweden and, to a lesser degree, to Spain, England and the United States.)
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- 2007-03-29: new
- 2014-02-24: revised
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