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| The lute is a plucked string instrument with a fretted neck and a deep round back. It originated from an instrument originally developed in Persia (Iran) called the Barbat which was also the ancestor of the superficially similar oud. The words lute and oud are both derived from Arabic al‘ud, meaning "the wood". The player of a lute is called a lutenist, and a maker of lutes is called a luthier. The Baroque Lute was developed around 1650. At first it had 11 courses of strings (in a tuning based ...
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