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The lyra viol and its music is probably one of the least explored and
performed repertories of western music left to us. The term covers
both an instrument and a style of playing and originated around 1600
in England.
The instrument was the size of a small bass viol, and originally
often came with a set of wire sympathetic strings that ran under the
bridge and through a hollow fingerboard to a set of pegs north of the
gut string peg box. These strings were tuned to the same pitches as the
6 gut strings. Playing the gut strings excited the metal strings to vibrate,
a phenomenon much wondered at by writers of the time, including
Francis Bacon and, obliquely perhaps, Shakespeare:

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