Word: lyre
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...observations taken by Prof. Holden by means of the Lick telescope, and the results obtained by means of the best English and American telescopes shows that the Lick lens is immeasurably superior to any of its predecessors. Formerly there was supposed to be only one star, called Alpha Lyre or Vega, within the ring of the nebula of the constellation Lyra, but recently five stars have been clearly defined within this ring, and an immense amount of detail concerning the structure of the nebula itself brought out. The nebula of the constellation of the Dragon has been shown to have...
...book notice on Scollard's "With Reed and Lyre" closes this admirable number...
...London paper states that the choruses composed by Dr. G. A. Macfarren for the recent performances in Greek at Cambridge and Eaton of the "Ajax" of Sophocles are in unison throughout, with accompaniment for harp (representing the lyre), and a small orchestra, reinforced by a drum. The music which the late Sir Sterndale Bennett was writing for the same tragedy is conceived more in the style of Mendelssohn's Greek tragedies ("Antigone" and "OEdipus") than in that adopted by his successor at Cambridge University. Only two pieces, unfortunately, were left complete - the overture and funeral march...
Your instrument 's the lyre, and not "the Bones...
...blasted lyre? Give several examples...