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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 ...
The colascione (or calascione, Italian: [kolaˈʃʃoːne], French: colachon [kɔlaˈʃɔ̃], also sometimes known as liuto della giraffa meaning giraffe-lute, a reference to its long neck) is a plucked string instrument from the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods, [1] [2] [3] with a lute-like resonant body and a very long neck.
Fretted lute with a long neck, pear-shaped body, and three courses of seven steel strings setar: Iran: 321.321 Pear-shaped lute with a long neck, three or four strings, plucked with the index finger of the right hand sitar: India: 321.321 surbahar: India: 321.321 tamburica [21] [22] tamburitza: Croatia: 321.321
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]
A theorbo differs from a regular lute in its re-entrant tuning in which the first two strings are tuned an octave lower. The theorbo was used during the Baroque music era (1600–1750) to play basso continuo accompaniment parts (as part of the basso continuo group, which often included harpsichord, pipe organ and bass instruments), and also as ...
The Azerbaijani tar features one extra bass string on the side, on a raised nut, and usually has two doubled resonance strings, held via small metal nuts halfway down the neck. These strings are all placed next to the main strings over the bridge and are fixed to a string-holder and the edge of the body, somewhat like the Indian sitar's rhythm ...
The instrument has a gourd body or soundbox and is about 75 centimeters long. [3] The komo (also 2 strings) is equivalent to the garaya. [3] It has a soundbox made from a gourd (instead of wood) and is about 75 centimeters long. [3] The instruments have traditionally been played to make "praise" songs for hunters, accompanied by gourd rattles.
Two-stringed versions are called dotara (two strings), a name which also applies to other instruments. In origin, the ektara was a regular string instrument of wandering bards and minstrels from India and is plucked with one finger. The ektara is a drone lute consisting of a gourd resonator covered with skin, through which a bamboo neck is ...