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The Sutton Hoo Lyre, Beowulf, and the Origins of the Frame Harp

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Rupert Bruce-Mitford  and
Myrtle Bruce-Mitford
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The old reconstruction, widely publicized and discussed by specialists, has been on exhibition in the British Museum since 1949. It is now replaced by the new reconstruction (PL. I). The change of this very early stringed instrument, the earliest reconstructible stringed instrument in Europe, from harp to lyre, is of great archaeological and musicological interest.

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Antiquity , Volume 44 , Issue 173 , March 1970 , pp. 7 - 13
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1970

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