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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]
Eastern lute players play the Eastern lutes (see tanbur). Subcategories. This category has the following 13 subcategories, out of 13 total. ...
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.
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 ...
Very little is known of Dowland's early life, but it is generally thought he was born in London; some sources even put his birth year as 1563.Irish historian W. H. Grattan Flood claimed that he was born in Dalkey, near Dublin, [1] [b] but no corroborating evidence has been found either for that or for Thomas Fuller's claim that he was born in Westminster. [2]
This is a list of composers who wrote for lute and similar period instruments: theorbo, chitarrone, vihuela etc. Composers who worked outside of their country of origin are listed according to where they were most active, i.e. German-born Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger is listed under Italy. Within sections, the order is alphabetical by surname ...
Lorenzo Allegri (1567 – 1648) was an Italian composer, who worked at the Medici court, in Florence. [1] He was mainly known as a lutenist, and for lute he wrote dances, sometimes with vocal parts.
Jakob Lindberg (born 16 October 1952) [1] is a Swedish lutenist, performing solo, in small and large ensembles, and also directing operas, using instruments of the lute and guitar families. [2] He is known for the first ever recording of the Complete Solo Lute Music of John Dowland [ 3 ] as well as for recording music never before recorded ...