The bridge is almost certainly from a lyre. At the very least, it gives us the separation of the strings. Ancient instruments are so rare that any little piece adds to our knowledge.
Here's a video about it, in which someone plays a reconstruction:
It's not clear to me that they've got the tuning right, though it was probably Pythagorean, and certainly the style of music is unknowable. But even so, this is fascinating stuff.
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Oh, cool. Love music history. I was a music major in college, and the Greek recordings that accompany my music history books sound pretty close to this.
Hi Stacy. Aha! A music person. I really should do a post some time about the ancient modes. Problem is, it'd be a long post.
Yeah, but I would love to read it. Oddly enough, Greek music didn't fascinate me until I was out of school and started reading more general history and myths and began to see how it related to Greek culture.
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