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Lyre [3 records]

Record 1 - external organization data 2021-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
OBS

lyre: an item in the "Musical Tools and Equipment" class of the "Tools and Equipment for Communication" category.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)
OBS

pupitre : objet de la classe «Outils et équipement de musique» de la catégorie «Outillage et équipement pour la communication».

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Viticulture
CONT

The U-system was developed by Dr. Alain Carbonneau in France in the 1970s. It has two curtains of upward-trained foliage held in place by two pairs of movable wires. ... Both the GDC [Geneva Double Curtain] and U-systems are examples of divided canopies - divided to let sunlight in an and to avoid shade. Canopy division (i.e., Geneva Double Curtain, Lyre) on fertile soils doubles exposure area, reduces internal shading and usually improves yield and quality.

OBS

System used to train grape vines.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Viticulture
CONT

[...] la diminution de l'entassement par des palissages en V, ou mieux, en U, très ouverts améliore la photosynthèse, l'aération du feuillage et agit donc favorablement sur la croissance, la maturation et la qualité des raisins.

OBS

Système à rameaux palissés verticalement d'une manière ascendante.

OBS

Donne un goût non herbacé au raisin.

Spanish

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Record 3 1983-04-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
OBS

a musical instrument of ancient Greece, consisting of a sound box, usually a turtle shell, with two curving arms carrying a cross bar, a yoke, from which strings are stretched to the body.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie

Spanish

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