ERHUChinese bowed instrument, the "Chinese violin"
Has two strings tuned a perfect fifth apart
Most popular instrument of the huqin (Chinese stringed instrument) family
Played with solos as well as varying sizes of ensembles
First made over 1000 years ago
Used in the Cirque du Soleil show "O"
A medieval stringed instrument played with a bow
Has 5 strings instead of 4 like the modern violin
Used by troubadours and jongluers during the 13th through 15th centuries
By the mid to late 1400s, called the hurdy-gurdy
A medieval bowed instrument with 3-5 strings
From the Byzantine Empire
Ancestor of many European bowed stringed instruments
Played by holding it upright and "stopping the strings from the side with fingernails"
Some lyras are still played today in Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey
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