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lute

Also known as luth

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.

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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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Instrument.name: Lute
Instrument.image: Lute (by Princess Ruto, 2013-02-11).jpg
Instrument.image_size: 200
Instrument.caption: Renaissance lute in 2013
Instrument.background: string
Instrument.classification: String instrument (plucked)
Instrument.hornbostel_sachs: 321
Instrument.hornbostel_sachs_desc: Composite chordophone

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Image: Lute (by Princess Ruto, 2013-02-11).jpg

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Commons category: Lutes
Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 321.321-5

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23 sections

Contents

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

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).