Category:Bowed lyres

This category concerns lyres (intruments whose strings are attached to a yoke which lies in the same plane as the sound-table and consists of two arms and a cross-bar) played with a bow.

For other instruments also sometimes called lyres but belonging to other organological families (Byzantine lyra, Pontic lyra, Constantinopolitan lyra, Cretan lyra, lira da braccio, Calabrian lira, lijerica, lyra viol, lirone etc), see Category:Bowed instruments.