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  2. Lute - Wikipedia

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    It is also an accompanying instrument in vocal works. The lute player either improvises ("realizes") a chordal accompaniment based on the figured bass part, or plays a written-out accompaniment (both music notation and tablature ("tab") are used for lute). As a small instrument, the lute produces a relatively quiet sound.

  3. History of lute-family instruments - Wikipedia

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    The mandore (or mandola in Italian) is a musical instrument, a small member of the lute family, teardrop shaped, with four to six courses of gut strings [150] and pitched in the treble range. [151] It was considered a new instrument in French music books from the 1580s, [152] but is descended from and very similar to the gittern. [149]

  4. Mandore (instrument) - Wikipedia

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    The mandore is a musical instrument, a small member of the lute family, teardrop shaped, with four to six courses of gut strings [2] and pitched in the treble range. [3] Considered a French instrument, with much of the surviving music coming from France, it was used across "Northern Europe" including Germany and Scotland.

  5. Mandolin - Wikipedia

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    A mandolin (Italian: mandolino, pronounced [mandoˈliːno]; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of eight strings. A variety of string types are used, with steel strings being ...

  6. Walaycho - Wikipedia

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    The walaycho (hispanicized spelling hualaycho, also walaychu) is a small lute-like fretted stringed instrument, the smallest member of the charango family. It is the same or similar to the maulincho. The walaychu along with the charango and its variations were born in the 16th century among the Ayacucho regions Peru and Potosí located in Bolivia.

  7. Charango - Wikipedia

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    The charango is a small Andean stringed instrument of the lute family, from the Quechua and Aymara populations in the territory of the Altiplano in post-Colonial times, after European stringed instruments were introduced by the Spanish during colonialization.

  8. Charangon - Wikipedia

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    The Charangón is a small lute-like fretted stringed instrument, of the charango family.. Its general shape and construction are very similar to the charango, but it is larger and is typically pitched 3 or 4 diatonic intervals lower (a "4th" or a "5th respectively) than a standard charango.

  9. Kontigi - Wikipedia

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    Side view of a kontigi. The lute has a elongated or oval half-calabash soundbox. It is small, about 12 inches long, with a high pitch. A kontigi or kuntigi is a one-stringed African lute played by the Hausa, Songhai and Djerma. [1] [2] A 3-string version teharden is used among the Tamashek. [2]

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