lute
Sign in to savethumb|start=7|thumbtime=12|Playing a lute made A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted.
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A lute is a plucked string instrument with a distinctive deep, rounded back and a neck, designed to produce sound through a hollow cavity in its body. It has been an important instrument across many musical traditions, played by plucking its strings either with or without frets to guide finger placement.
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- Renaissance lute in 2013
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- String instrument (plucked)
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- Composite chordophone
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23 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History and evolution of the lute
- First lutes
- Persian barbat
- From Middle Ages to Baroque
- Construction
- Soundboard
- Back
- Neck
- Bridge
- Frets
- Strings
- Lute in the modern world
- Repertoire
- 20th century revival and composers
- Tuning conventions
- Varieties
- Players
- Makers
- See also
- Notes
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|start=7|thumbtime=12|Playing a lute made A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted.
More specifically, the term "lute" commonly refers to an instrument from the family of European lutes, which were themselves influenced by short-necked lutes in Gandhara (modern-day Pakistan) which became the predecessor of the Islamic, the Sino-Japanese and the European lute families. The term also refers generally to any necked string instrument having the strings running in a plane parallel to the sound table (in the Hornbostel–Sachs system).