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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 4223285, member: 57463&quot;]Well, this topic was opened up to <b>all</b> musical instruments... But as focused as we all are on the tiniest details, we should straighten out our references to the</p><ul> <li>HARP</li> <li>LYRE</li> <li>KITHARA</li> <li>CHELYS</li> </ul><p>It depends on (1) the sounding body or sounding board and therefore the (2) range and often (3) the number of strings as well as (4) who played it. The Lyre has no sounding board or sounding body. The chelys and kithara have sounding bodies. According to mythology, Hermes invented the chelys, hollowing out the shell of a tortoise he saw entering a room (ouch! hey!). The kithara was built by Apollo (who would slaughter an army but not a harmless tortoise). Kitharons were professional musicians while the chelys remained a folk instrument.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Now everyone can go fix those erroneous attributions on those 2x2s.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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