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  2. Oud - Wikipedia

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    The oud (Arabic: عود, romanized: ʿūd, pronounced [ʕuːd]; [1][2][3]) is a Middle Eastern short-neck lute -type, pear -shaped, fretless stringed instrument [4] (a chordophone in the Hornbostel–Sachs classification of instruments), usually with 11 strings grouped in six courses, but some models have five or seven courses, with 10 or 13 ...

  3. Lute - Wikipedia

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    A list of modern lute music written after 1815; Music Collection in Cambridge Digital Library. One of the most important collections of manuscript music in Cambridge University Library is the group of nine lute manuscripts copied by Mathew Holmes in the early years of the seventeenth century. Le Luth Doré Urtext music editions The most ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Music of Lebanon - Wikipedia

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    Rock is very popular in Lebanon. During the Lebanese Civil War, rock, hard rock, heavy metal, stadium rock, and progressive rock were very popular. Bands like Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Thin Lizzy, Kiss, Queen, Elton John, Aerosmith, Yes, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Genesis, Electric Light Orchestra, Supertramp ...

  6. Laúd - Wikipedia

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    Laúd (Spanish: "lute") is a plectrum -plucked chordophone from Spain, played also in diaspora countries such as Cuba and the Philippines. The laúd belongs to the cittern family of instruments. The Spanish and Cuban instruments have six double courses in unison (i.e. twelve strings in pairs); the Philippine instrument has 14 strings with some ...

  7. String instrument - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner. Musicians play some string instruments, like guitars, by plucking the strings with their fingers or a plectrum (pick), and others by ...

  8. Archlute - Wikipedia

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    Archlute. 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 ...

  9. Tar (string instrument) - Wikipedia

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    Guitar, Oud, Tanbur, Rebab, Setar. The tar (from Persian: تار, lit. 'string') is a long-necked, waisted lute family instrument, used by many cultures and countries including Iran, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Georgia, Tajikistan (Iranian Plateau), Turkey, and others near the Caucasus and Central Asia regions. [1][2][3] The older and more ...