Bell lyre

Bell lyre (Ger.: Stahlspiel, Lyra; It.: strumento d'acciaio), a portable glockenspiel in lyre form, designed for the use of marching bands. A series of tuned metal bars is fixed at each end to a lyre-shaped frame. The player holds it by a handle and strikes the bars with a small metal beater. Because of its shape it is also called lyra. Other names are lyra glockenspiel, metal harmonica (89, 151). Sort by:DefaultTitleDateAuthorAscendingDescending Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th…