Manolis Stagakis belongs to a family of luthiers that are supposed to have invented the standard lyra that is used nowadays in Crete. Here is an interview with the luthier.

The joza belongs to the larger family of the rebabs of the arab world. In this video we can listen to the Maqam Nawa played on the joza during the London Fiddle Conference in February 2009 by Sohaib al-Rahab. The performance is introduced by Yeheskel Kojaman

A series of documentaries about the lyra in the peripheral Aegean communities. From Thrace to Karpathos, from Crete to Lemnos, these documentaries are an account of the resistance of old instruments and traditions against the homogeneization produced by medias. Link to the website of the project here