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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. The player of a lute ...

  3. History of lute-family instruments - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Category:Lute family instruments - Wikipedia

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    L. List of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number: 321.22; List of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number: 321.33; List of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number: 321.311

  5. Category:Lutes - Wikipedia

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    For other instruments also labelled "lutes", see Category:Lute family instruments. Subcategories. This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total. C.

  6. Theorbo - Wikipedia

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    The first mention of a theorbo in France was in 1637, and by the 1660s it had replaced the 10-course lute as the most popular accompanying instrument. [3] The theorbo was a very important continuo instrument in the French court and multiple French theorbo continuo tutors (method books) were published by Delair (1690), Campion (1716 and 1730 ...

  7. Pandura - Wikipedia

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    When the bow was straightened out (turning it into a lute) the instrument created "may have kept the name", ban.tur. [7] That instrument "eventually led to the pandura. [7] This is not to say that the pandura is the first of all the lutes with similar names; pandura was one of many names coming from the original Sumerian ban.tur, including ...

  8. Archlute - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. List of musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    An assortment of musical instruments in an Istanbul music store. This is a list of musical instruments , including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones and membranophones)