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Pear-shaped bowl lute with a neck, played by plucking rubab [1] [18] rabab: Afghanistan: 321.321-6 Short-necked three-stringed lute with sympathetic and drone strings, fretted and plucked with a plectrum, with a double-chambered body, the lower part of which is covered in skin, and with three main strings sallaneh: 321.321 Saraswati veena ...
The Lute in Europe. The Lute Corner ISBN 978-3-9523232-0-5; Smith, Douglas Alton (2002). A History of the Lute from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Lute Society of America ISBN 0-9714071-0-X ISBN 978-0-9714071-0-7; Spring, Matthew (2001). The Lute in Britain: A History of the Instrument and its Music. Oxford University Press. Vaccaro, Jean-Michel ...
The main differences between the archlute and the "baroque" lute of northern Europe are that the baroque lute has 11 to 13 courses, while the archlute typically has 14, [2] and the tuning of the first six courses of the baroque lute outlines a d-minor chord, while the archlute preserves the tuning of the Renaissance lute, [3] with perfect fourths surrounding a third in the middle for the first ...
Europe (regional): Clavichord (Central Europe) Dombra (Eastern Europe) Guitar Zither(Central Europe) Harpsichord (Central Europe) Hurdy-gurdy (Western Europe) Lute; Piano (Central & Southern Europe) Tamburitza (Central Europe) Tarica; Finland: Jouhikko; Kannel; Kantele; France: Epinette des Vosges; Harp (Concert harp; Pedal harp) Hurdy-gurdy ...
One of these musicians, Timofiy Bilohradsky, was a lute student of Sylvius Leopold Weiss and later became a noted lute virtuoso, a court lutenist, active in Königsberg and St.Petersburg. In the 18th century, the kobza's upper range was extended with an addition of several unstopped treble strings, known as " prystrunky ", meaning: strings on ...
Cythara — a lute; Epinette des Vosges — a traditional plucked-string instrument of the zither family from the Vosges region in eastern France [1] Mandulina — a Corsican mandolin; Mandore — a musical instrument, a small member of the lute family, teardrop shaped, with four to six courses of gut strings and pitched in the treble range.
The lute spread eastward as well; long lutes today are found everywhere from Europe to Japan and south to India. The short lute developed in Central Asia or Northern India in areas that had connection to Greece, China, India and the Middle East through trade and conquest. The short wood-topped lute moved east to China (as the pipa), south to ...
The colascione (or calascione, Italian: [kolaˈʃʃoːne], French: colachon [kɔlaˈʃɔ̃], also sometimes known as liuto della giraffa meaning giraffe-lute, a reference to its long neck) is a plucked string instrument from the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods, [1] [2] [3] with a lute-like resonant body and a very long neck.