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The body of the lute guitar is similar to the rounded body of the traditional lute. Several ribs (or panels) of curved wood (usually maple or rosewood) make up the back of body, glued to a wooden frame underneath. These ribs are sometimes painted to resemble the traditional (or stereotypical) perception of a medieval minstrel or jester.
A lute (/ lj uː t / [1] or / l uː t /) is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted.
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 ...
Lute guitar: 6 strings 6 courses. Standard/common: E 2 •A 2 •D 3 •G 3 •B 3 •E 4. Alternates are the same as the guitar. Guitarren laute, guitar-lute, lute-guitar Germany Basically this is a lute-shaped guitar; a guitar neck on a lute body. Guitarro: 6 strings 6 courses. B 4 F ♯ 4 D 5 A 5 E 5: Guitarrico, Spanish Tiple Spain ...
Barrel-shaped percussion instruments, tuned chromatically, originally made from discarded 55 gallon drums: 111.241.2 Turkey: saz [140] [141] bağlama, kopuz: Fretted lute with a long neck, pear-shaped body, and three courses of seven steel strings 321.321-6: Turkmenistan: dutar [142] Plucked string instrument with two strings and a long neck ...
Isan phin. The phin (Thai: พิณ, pronounced) (Lao: ພິນ, pronounced) is a type of lute with a pear-shaped body, originating in the Isan region of Thailand and played mostly by ethnic Laotians in Thailand and Laos.
The sintir (Arabic: سنتير), also known as the guembri (الكمبري), gimbri, hejhouj in Hausa language, is a three stringed skin-covered bass plucked lute used by the Gnawa people of Morocco. It is approximately the size of a guitar, with a body carved from a log and covered on the playing side with camel skin.
Information about Roman pandura-type instruments comes mainly from ancient Roman artwork. Under the Romans the pandura was modified: the long neck was preserved but was made wider to take four strings, and the body was either oval or slightly broader at the base, but without the inward curves of the pear-shaped instruments. [9]