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Thanassis Skordalos, Greek singer-songwriter and lyra player (born 1920)

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Thanassis Skordalos

Musical artist

Thanassis Skordalos was a musician from Crete, noted for playing the lyra, the bowed string instrument of Crete and most popular surviving form of the medieval Byzantine lyra.
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Cretan lyra

Musical instrument

The Cretan lyra is a pear-shaped three-stringed Greek Violin, a traditional musical instrument, central to the traditional music of Crete and other islands in the Dodecanese and the Aegean Archipelago, in Greece. The Cretan lyra is considered to be the most popular surviving…
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