Editing Lyre (section)

==Global variants and parallels==
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;Europe
* Armenia: քնար (''knar'')
* British Isles: Scotland [[cruit]], The Shetland Isles [[gue]] and Wales [[crwth]]
* England: [[Anglo-Saxon Lyre]],  [[Giga (instrument)|giga]], [[Crwth|rote or crowd]]
* Continental Europe: Germanic or Anglo-Saxon lyre (''hearpe''), rotte or crotte
* Estonia: [[talharpa]]
* Finland: [[jouhikko]]
* Greece: λύρα (''lýra''; Modern Greek pronunciation: ''líra'') with the subtypes of [[Politiki lyra]] ("Constantinopolitan lyre"), [[Cretan lyra]] and [[Pontic lyra]] ("lyre of the Black Sea", also known as [[kemençe]])
* Italy: the Latin ''chorus'', the modern [[Calabrian lira]]
* Lithuania: lyra
* Norway: [[Giga (instrument)|giga]], [[:sv:Kraviklyra|Kraviklyra]]
* Poland: lira
* Russia: Lyre-shaped gusli

;Asia
* Arabian peninsula: [[tanbūra]]
* iran: chang romi
* Iraq ([[Sumer]]): [[tanbūra]], zami, [[Hittite music#Lyre|zinar]]
* Israel: [[kinnor]]
* India and Pakistan: [[tanpura]]
* Kazakhstan: ''kossaz''[https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/sutton-hoo-lyre-and-the-music-of-the-silk-road-a-new-find-of-the-fourth-century-ad-reveals-the-germanic-lyres-missing-eastern-connections/C35D4310FE10FF85F0DD3AD4C077B6D7]
* Siberia: [[nares-jux]]
* Yemen: [[tanbūra]], [[simsimiyya]]

;Africa
* Egypt: [[kissar]], [[tanbūra]], [[simsimiyya]]
* Ethiopia and Eritrea: [[begena]], [[dita (instrument)|dita]], [[krar]]
* Kenya: [[kibugander]], [[litungu]], [[nyatiti]], [[obokano]]
* Sudan: [[kissar]], [[tanbūra]]
* Uganda: [[endongo]], [[ntongoli]]

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File:Vyap Saung.jpg|Burmese lyre, a Byat saung.
File:Carl Haag A Nubian harper.jpg|Tanbūra In Cairo, played by a [[Nubian people|Nubian]], 1858.
File:African Lyre Player c. 1640-1660, Deccan, at the Cleveland Museum of Art.jpg|Lyre Player c. 1640–1660, [[Deccan sultanates]]
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