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  2. Lute guitar - Wikipedia

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    The body of the lute guitar is similar to the rounded body of the traditional lute. Several ribs (or panels) of curved wood (usually maple or rosewood) make up the back of body, glued to a wooden frame underneath. These ribs are sometimes painted to resemble the traditional (or stereotypical) perception of a medieval minstrel or jester.

  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. Lute - Wikipedia

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    A lute (/ lj uː t / [1] or / l uː t /) 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.

  5. List of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number: 321.321

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    Pear-shaped fretless stringed instrument, with five courses of two strings and a single eleventh string, a bent back and a bowl-shaped body, often with up to three soundholes, played with a pick pandur: Chechnya: 321.321 pandura: 321.321 panduri: Georgia: 321.321 pipa [17] China: 321.321-5 Pear-shaped bowl lute with a neck, played by plucking ...

  6. Pandura - Wikipedia

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    Information about Roman pandura-type instruments comes mainly from ancient Roman artwork. Under the Romans the pandura was modified: the long neck was preserved but was made wider to take four strings, and the body was either oval or slightly broader at the base, but without the inward curves of the pear-shaped instruments. [9]

  7. List of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number: 321.322

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    Flatback bandurria is box lute. Roundback bandurria is bowl lute. bouzouki, Irish: Ireland 321.322 An Irish variant of the Greek bouzouki, with a flat rather than bowl-shaped back cuatro [1] Colombia and Venezuela: 321.322 Fretted stringed instrument with a hollow body and with four strings cuatro [2] Puerto Rico: 321.322

  8. Sintir - Wikipedia

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    The sintir (Arabic: سنتير), also known as the guembri (الكمبري), gimbri, hejhouj in Hausa language, is a three stringed skin-covered bass plucked lute used by the Gnawa people of Morocco. It is approximately the size of a guitar, with a body carved from a log and covered on the playing side with camel skin.

  9. Edward Light - Wikipedia

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    The harp-lyre, 1816, differing from No. 2 in the shape of the body, which is flat at the back. The British lute-harp, for which Light took out a patent dated 18 June 1816, a chromatic lute-harp, distinguished by certain pieces of mechanism called ditals, or thumb-keys, which when pressed raise the corresponding string one semitone.