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  2. Lute - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Archlute - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. History of lute-family instruments - Wikipedia

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    Lutes are stringed musical instruments that include a body and "a neck which serves both as a handle and as a means of stretching the strings beyond the body". [1]The lute family includes not only short-necked plucked lutes such as the lute, oud, pipa, guitar, citole, gittern, mandore, rubab, and gambus and long-necked plucked lutes such as banjo, tanbura, bağlama, bouzouki, veena, theorbo ...

  5. Oud - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. List of string instruments - Wikipedia

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    Dombra (Eastern Europe and Central Asia) Domra (Russia) Piccolo Domra; Prims DomraPrima: Soprano DomraSoprano: b e1 a1[4] Alto DomraAlto: e a d1[5] Tenor DomraTenor: B e a[6] Bass DomraBass: E A d[7] Contrabass Domra (major) Contrabass Domra (minor) Doshpuluur (Tuva) Dotar; Dotara (Bangladesh) Double bass; Dramyin; Dulcimer; Duo'Lectar; Dutar ...

  7. Kobza - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Citole - Wikipedia

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    Ephraim Segerman also talked about plucked fiddles. A theory of stringed instruments with fingerboards was explained in his 1999 paper, A Short History of the Cittern, where part of the paper explained the existence of short lute-like instruments in Central Asia, and mentioned their entry in Europe around the 8th century. [44]

  9. Plucked string instrument - Wikipedia

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    Guitar and lute This illustration in a French Psalter from the 9th century (c. 830) shows a little known plucked string instrument called cythara in manuscripts. Stringed instruments hanging on a wall. Shown here are 4 Ukuleles, 2 Mandolins, a Banjo, a Guitar, a Violin, a Guraitar and a Bass guitar. Qanún/kanun, origin from ancient Mesopotamia ...