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A lyre or harp carved on a monument, marking a musician.
Also known as: Harp on a grave, Musician's lyre
A stringed frame instrument. Marks a musician on a monument, and carries a second reading as an emblem of harmony and of the heavenly — a Christian association old enough to be genuinely documented rather than assumed.
Also carries an established Christian association with heavenly music and with King David, which is documented in religious iconography long before it appears on gravestones.
A broken string is sometimes said to mark a life cut short, on the same reasoning as the broken column. The claim is standard in the popular literature and is not well evidenced.
Commonly stated, thinly supported.
A U-shaped frame with two curving arms joined by a crossbar at the top, with several straight strings running vertically between the crossbar and the base.