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A lute being made in a workshop. Lutes are made almost entirely of wood. The soundboard is a teardrop-shaped thin flat plate of resonant wood (typically spruce). In all lutes the soundboard has a single (sometimes triple) decorated sound hole under the strings called the rose. The sound hole is not open, but rather covered with a grille in the ...
The pierced lute had a neck made from a stick that pierced the body (as in the ancient Egyptian long-neck lutes, and the modern African gunbrī). [16] The long lute had an attached neck, and included the sitar, tanbur and tar (dutār 2 strings, setār 3 strings, čatār 4 strings, pančtār 5 strings). [1] [15]
The qinqin (秦 琴; pinyin: qínqín; Vietnamese: Đàn sến [1]) is a plucked Chinese lute. It was originally manufactured with a wooden body, a slender fretted neck, and three strings. [2] Its body can be round, [3] hexagonal (with rounded sides), or octagonal. Often, only two strings were used, as in certain regional silk-and-bamboo ...
The bowl is made of light woods, the neck of a hardwood. It has a wooden soundboard. [18] It is a fretless instrument with 11 strings in 6 courses, tuned low note to high: (Notes in scientific pitch notation) Arab tuning for oud: C 2 F 2 F 2 A 2 A 2 D 3 D 3 G 3 G 3 C 4 C 4 [20] Alternate for oud C EE AA DD GG CC [20] Circle of fifths: B 2 E 3 E ...
The oud (Arabic: عود, romanized: ʿūd, pronounced) [1] [2] [3] is a Middle Eastern short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped, fretless stringed instrument [4] (a chordophone in the Hornbostel–Sachs classification of instruments), usually with 11 strings grouped in six courses, but some models have five or seven courses, with 10 or 13 strings respectively.
The komuz is generally made from a single piece of wood (usually apricot or juniper) and has three strings traditionally made out of gut, and often from fishing line in modern times. In the most common tunings the middle string is the highest in pitch.
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 ...
E.G. for the 9 String Stossel Lute (& 18 string Stossel Mandolin which is a Double Strung version w/ 9 pairs of strings, the lowest 4 or 6 pairs sometimes in Octaves) the strings are tuned in 5ths like a Five-string violin & then a 2nd group of 5ths is inserted starting w/ the Minor Third of the lowest note. C3, Eb3, G3, Bb3, D4, F4, A4, C5, E5