The lyre-guitar was a type of guitar shaped like a lyre.
A Lyre resembles a small harp. The only comparison is that both are classed as "stringed instrument".
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A lyre is a stringed instrument. It has more strings than a guitar and fewer than a harp.
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Guitar ,violin, cello, viola ,bass ,double bass, harp, and lyre.
The name guitar is derived from the old Persian "chartar", which directly translated means "four strings".
You could consider it would be, because of the strings, but I would call it an older version of the harp. In the guitar, strings are pressed down to change pitch.
You might be thinking of a Lute, which is sort of the "father" of the guitar.
Erato - muse of love poetry The cithara or kithara, it was an ancient Greek musical instrument in the lyre family Nowadays the word kithara has the meaning of guitar kithara----> guitar
The etymology of the word "guitar" is early 17th century: from Spanish guitarra (partly via French), from Greek kithara, denoting an instrument similar to the lyre.
Only in that they are both instruments with doubled courses of strings. The lute is a guitar-sized instrument with the approximate range of the guitar. The mandolin is a smaller, tenor-voiced instrument.
There is no antonym for lyre since a lyre is an instrument.