Not much is known about the ancient Celtic lyre only that it was used by
Celtic bards since the 8th century BC and that it was later well known
in Rome, where it was called lyra Its resonator was
made from wood, while only few components were made from bones. The
instrument's strings were made from animal intestine. The Gauls and
other Celtic peoples regarded the crwth as
a symbol of their independent musical culture,although they had
probably received it from the Ancient Greeks. The Goths invoked their
tribal gods with prayers and chants, which they accompanied by lyre play.
By the time of the Barbarian Invasions in the 5th century AD the lyre
had become the most important stringed instrument of the Germanic tribes and
was a six-stringed wooden lyre with hollow ledger arms and wooden
vortices in the ledger rod. The original Celtic lyre however came with
different numbers of strings, as the Lyre of Paule, which is depicted on a statue from Côtes d'Armor in Brittany, apparently had seven strings.
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