Galli^® Strings - The Cretan Lyra (Greek: Κρητική λύρα) is a Greek pear-shaped, three-stringed bowed musical instrument, central to the traditional music of Crete and other islands in the Dodecanese and the Aegean Archipelago, in Greece. It is considered to be the most popular surviving form of the medieval Byzantine lyra, an ancestor of most European bowed instruments. The Cretan Lyra set of strings by Gallistrings has 3 strings flat wound chrome steel which will enrich your Cretan instrument giving pitch stability, high performances and superior tone and feel.