The technical characteristics of the traditional Cretan Lyra had to be significantly altered.

The following parts had to be altered…

Yiorgos Kaloudis believes that Classical Cretan Lyra is defined by the bow technique. 

He uses a bow of Early Music designed originally for Viola d’ Amore. Having studied the classical technique of the modern bow and being a connoisseur and scholar of the baroque bow of the J.S. Bach time, he uses a combined technique of both.

Due to his classical education and training, Yiorgos changed the posture and the position of the wrist, from the classic interpretation of the cello. He uses plenty of different positions of touching the string, a few of which he discovered himself.