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A lute being made in a workshop. Lutes are made almost entirely of wood. The soundboard is a teardrop-shaped thin flat plate of resonant wood (typically spruce). In all lutes the soundboard has a single (sometimes triple) decorated sound hole under the strings called the rose. The sound hole is not open, but rather covered with a grille in the ...
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). [16] The long lute had an attached neck, and included the sitar, tanbur and tar (dutār 2 strings, setār 3 strings, čatār 4 strings, pančtār 5 strings). [1] [15]
The pluriarc, also called paata, mapu, luku, [1] kissanga, and bow lute [2] is a stringed musical instrument of West Africa, classified as a type of lute. It has a hollow body and several curved, pliable necks made of reeds. The strings stretch from the necks to the bridge, which stands approximately 1.5 inches (38 mm) above the body. [1]
The bowl is made of light woods, the neck of a hardwood. It has a wooden soundboard. [18] It is a fretless instrument with 11 strings in 6 courses, tuned low note to high: (Notes in scientific pitch notation) Arab tuning for oud: C 2 F 2 F 2 A 2 A 2 D 3 D 3 G 3 G 3 C 4 C 4 [20] Alternate for oud C EE AA DD GG CC [20] Circle of fifths: B 2 E 3 E ...
The Swedish lute (Swedish: svensk luta) is a musical instrument developed from the early cittern, with a theorbo'ed neck with several bass strings running offset from the fretboard. The modern Swedish lute generally has six strings over the fretboard, and four or more free-running strings.
It is a bowed lute with 13 strings, one raised bowing string and 12 sympathetic strings, tuned to the mode of the muqam or piece being played. In India , the Sitar is an instrument with many forms. Its name is "an Urdu transcription of the Persian sihtār ". [ 1 ]
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 ...
It is usually hollowed out of a single piece of wood and can vary in size from 60 cm to 120 cm in length. Unlike a contemporary guitar, the dranyen does not have a round sound hole in the wooden sounding board, but rather rosette-shaped ones like a lute. For 6 string dranyen all six strings continue to the pegbox. They run in 3 double courses.