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9 unusual facts about LYRA


Alessandro Poglietti

Many of the variations of Aria Allemagna imitate music for non-keyboard instruments (Variation 5 Lyra, Variation 11 Bayrische Schalmay, etc.) or foreign and/or folk traditions (Variation 15 Französische Baiselements).

Giannis Poulopoulos

He recorded four or five 45rpm disks for Columbia Records which are now difficult to find, as the singer soon agreed to record for Lyra, for whom he recorded three songs by Mikis Theodorakis.

LYRA

Diamond sensors make the instruments radiation-hard and solar-blind: their high bandgap energy makes them quasi-insensitive to visible light (see also references in Marchywka Effect).

Lyra's Oxford

Two pages from a Baedeker published in Lyra's world (including entries for the Eagle Ironworks, the Oxford Canal, the Fell Press and the Oratory of St Barnabas the Chymist, all in the Jericho area of Oxford), a postcard from the character Mary Malone, and a brochure for the cruise ship Zenobia are also included.

Newchurch, Isle of Wight

Newchurch obtained its name from the new church built in 1087 by the Norman monks of Lyra.

Playmobil

Greek figures were produced during the 1970s by a company called Lyra.

Ramus Pomifer

Ramus Pomifer (Latin for apple branch) was a constellation located between Hercules and Lyra.

The Lyre of Orpheus

Lyra, a constellation associated, in Greek mythology, with the lyre of Orpheus

WEGA

Sony says that the FD Trinitron WEGA was named after a star ('Vega' in English) in the Lyra constellation, and made no reference to the original WEGA firm.


Add a Friend

Add a Friend is a German comedy-drama created and written by Sebastian Wehlings and Christian Lyra for TNT Serie.

Cretan lyra

Lyra has a body (kafka, or kafki) with a pear-shaped soundboard (kapaki), or one which is essentially oval in shape, with two small semi-circular soundholes.

Débora Lyra

On December 27, 2011, Débora Lyra was involved in a severe car crash, for which her spleen has been removed and some interventions in her spine where due.

History of the violin

Many archive documents testify that from 1485-95 Brescia was the cradle of a magnificent school of string players and makers, all called with the title of "maestro" of all the different sort of strings instruments of the Renaissance: viola da gamba (viols), violone, lyra, lyrone, violetta and viola da brazzo.

Music of Crete

The first recorded reference to lyra was in the 9th century by the Persian geographer Ibn Khurradadhbih (d. 911); in his lexicographical discussion of instruments, he cited the lyre (lūrā) as the typical instrument of the Byzantines along with the (organ).

Petr Borkovec

Vladislav Khodasevich: Těžká lyra, Opus, 2004 — poems translated by Petr Borkovec, esseys translated by Miluše Zadražilová

Tanirama

It was released in 1989 and it is her first album since her departure from the independent Greek record label Lyra.

Wrey Gardiner

Lyra: An anthology of new lyric (1942), edited by Alex Comfort and Robert Greacen, was a representative poetry anthology published by Grey Walls, containing new writing of the time.


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