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L Y R A (li'ra) 

(takes 2 to tango but 3 to make a star...thanks Jac and Dhitz for ur cooperation...hehe)

SCI-TECH ENCYCLOPEDIA:

The Lyre, in astronomy, a summer constellation, small but important. Lyra has a first-magnitude star, Vega, a navigational star and the most brilliant star in this part of the sky. Vega forms, with two faintstars to the east, an almost perfect equilateral triangle. The southern one in turn forms, with three brighter stars to the south, an approximate parallelogram. The resulting overall figure resembles a tortoise more than a stringed musical instrument.

MUSIC ENCYCLOPEDIA:

A term used for various instruments, most often string instruments. In army bands a lyra is a portable glockenspiel consisting of a lyre-shaped metal frame to which are attached tuned metal bars in the conventional two rows for diatonic and chromatic notes (see Bell-lyra). The terms ‘lyra’ and ‘lira’ in medieval and Renaissance writings designated various string instruments of the time (Lira de Braccio, Lirone and Lyra viol) as well as the ancient Greek lyre, but seldom members of the zither family. The term is also used for a short-necked Greek fiddle.

COLUMBIA ENCYCLOPEDIA:

[Lat.,=the lyre], northern constellation lying S of Draco, E of Hercules, and W of Cygnus. Although many civilizations represented it as a bird, it was also depicted as a tortoise. The white star  Vega (Alpha Lyrae), the brightest star in the constellation, is one of the brightest in the entire sky. Just NE of Vega is Epsilon Lyrae, one of the few double stars that can be resolved with the naked eye. Also in Lyra is the Ring Nebula, the most famous of the planetary nebulae, consisting of a shell of gas separated from and expanding from a central star. Lyra reaches its highest point in the evening sky in August.