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The Probert Encyclopaedia of Music

LUTE

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The lute is a family of stringed musical instruments that were in use during the 14th to 18th centuries. The lute had a pear-shaped convex back built up of staves of various kinds of wood, a flat breast - usually of pine - a bridge, a fretted finger-board, and strings tuned in pairs of unisons and from one to three sound holes in the breast. Lutes were played by plucking the strings with the thumb and fingers.
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