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A rondalla with laudes included English musician Steve Howe playing the instrument at a Yes show in 2013. Laúd (Spanish: "lute") is a plectrum-plucked chordophone from Spain, played also in diaspora countries such as Cuba and the Philippines. The laúd belongs to the cittern family of instruments.
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 [7]). [8] The long lute had an attached neck, and included the sitar, tanbur and tar: the dutār had two strings, setār three strings, čārtār four strings, pančtār five strings. [5] [6]
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 ...
The vihuela (Spanish pronunciation:) is a 15th-century fretted plucked Spanish string instrument, shaped like a guitar (figure-of-eight form offering strength and portability) but tuned like a lute. It was used in 15th- and 16th-century Spain as the equivalent of the lute in Italy and has a large resultant repertory.
The word luthier is originally French and comes from luth, the French word for "lute".The term was originally used for makers of lutes, but it came to be used in French for makers of most bowed and plucked stringed instruments such as members of the violin family (including violas, cellos, and double basses) and guitars.
[6] [4] Musicologist James Tyler said that the Spanish bandurria with three strings was the mandore, although it had four strings when it arrived in France. [7] In its Spanish form the bandurria may have resembled the rebec. [7] The mandore was played widely across Europe, just as the earlier gittern had been.
This used to be the common picture of the mandolin, an obscure instrument of romance in the hands of a Spanish nobleman. [1] The mandolin is a modern member of the lute family, dating back to Italy in the 18th century.
The archlute (Spanish: archilaúd, Italian: arciliuto, German: Erzlaute) is a European plucked string instrument developed around 1600 as a compromise between the very large theorbo, [1] the size and re-entrant tuning of which made for difficulties in the performance of solo music, [2] and the Renaissance tenor lute, which lacked the bass range of the theorbo.