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Lutes made by Laux Maler were highly prized by musicians in the seventeenth century. In April 1645 Constantijn Huygens tried to obtain a nine rib Laux Maler lute from Jacques Gaultier, a lutenist at the court of Charles I of England. Gaultier said there were only fifty extant, six in London, of medium size and not suitable to accompany a singer.
Đàn đáy used in Ca trù. Đàn đáy tuning. It is used primarily in Northern Vietnam, and is one of the accompanying instruments used in ca trù. [3]In the late 20th century, a modernized version of the electric bass guitar in the shape of the đàn đáy was developed for use in the neo-traditional music composed and performed at the Hanoi Conservatory.
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 ...
Lewis earned the title "The Boy with the Lute" for his usage of a six-string guitar-lute, [1] and was inducted to the Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame on November 29, 2014. [3] He became a member of the Grand Ole Opry and continues to perform and record new material. [1]
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] ...
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 Stoessel lute (German: Stössel-Laute) is a string instrument invented by Georg Stössel in 1914 in Cologne (Köln), Germany. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Its steel strings are fingered not by putting one's hand round the neck, but over the end of it.
The ruan (Chinese: 阮; pinyin: ruǎn) is a traditional Chinese plucked string instrument.It is a lute with a fretted neck, a circular body, and four strings. Its four strings were formerly made of silk but since the 20th century they have been made of steel (flatwound for the lower strings).