Category Archives: Music

Lyre of Hermes

About once a year we hear of someone reproducing this or that ancient instrument. This time around, it’s the so-called “Lyre of Hermes”, which is the lyre you often see depicted on Hellenistic pottery. Dixit Serkan Çelik (a lecturer at Ege University Turkish Music Conservatory): “Some depictions were not too clear, that’s why we had [...]