LIRA
DA BRACCIO
from Raffaellino
del Garbo's painting,
beginning XVI century
37,5 cm.
Sounding Lenght
It was a very popular instrument at the time as documented in many pictures from the renaissance and baroque periods. It has a vast possibility of musical application: it plays a single melody, plays chords and plays melody together with its own chords. The bridge of the instrument, infact, very often shown in paintings, has a special curve, leaving the first three strings free to be played separately and the rest can be played together as two, three or four strings, much like lute courses.
