A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or "sides," arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed.
A plucked string instrument with a half pear-shaped body. It has a fretboard and pegbox set at an angle. It has had six strings since the 17th century, after thousands of years of development.
chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard
a chordophone, an instrument which makes sound by the vibration of strings
a guitar-like instrument with a long neck and a pear-shaped body, much used in the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries
an early stringed instrument and quite difficult to build
A stringed instrument with a long neck and a rounded body with a flat front, played by plucking.
an ancient string instrument played by plucking the strings
Plucked-string instrument of Middle Eastern origin, popular in western Europe from the late Middle Ages to the eighteenth century.
a stringed musical instrument (forerunner of the guitar)
A string instrument with a neck that extends beyond the resonator. A guitar-like instrument, especially important in the 16th century.
a plucked string instrument of the 14th to the 17th centuries similar in appearance to the guitar, but with an oblong, pear-shaped body. Although it flourished in the Renaissance, the lute was still an important instrument in the early baroque, and was used to accompany songs and as part of the continuo group. During the course of the 17th century, it was gradually superseded by the theorbo, violin and harpsichord.
string musical instrument, shaped like half a pear and similar to a guitar, with six to thirteen strings