In the first case, the resonator is often a turtle shell, while the sound board is made of leather.
[2] Examples of yoke lutes are the lyre, the kithara, the barbiton, and the phorminx from Ancient Greece, and the biblical kinnor, all of which were strummed instruments, with the fingers dampening the unwanted notes in the chord.
Africa has continuous living traditions of yoke lutes, most of which are plucked, among them the begena, endongo, kissar, krar, litungu, nyatiti, obokano, simsimiyya, and tanbūra.
Scandinavia Finland/Karelia and England also have a bowed yoke-luke tradition in the Crwth, Jouhikko and Talharpa.
However, there are other instruments called "lyra" or "lira" which, from an organological point of view, do not belong to this family; they are instead handle lutes.