a plucked stringed instrument with a pear-shaped body and fretted fingerboard
Lute
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Luth
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French
a plucked stringed instrument with a pear shaped body and fretted fingerboard
Laúd
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Spanish lute with a flat back, 12 metal strings in 6 courses and a pear shaped body
Lahute
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eight stringed instrument in the lute family, tuned in fifths, a folk instrument of the Kosovar Albanians
Mandolin
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Italian
a lute shaped instrument with four to six pairs of strings, a fretted fingerboard, played with a plectrum
Mandoline
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Italian
a lute shaped instrument with four to six pairs of strings, a fretted fingerboard, played with a plectrum
Koryaga
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one stringed instrument with a string fixed on a curved branch of a tree. The sound is made by a violin bow or plucked, and t…
Arco
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Italian
play a stringed instrument with a bow as opposed to plucked or pizzicato; the bow of a stringed instrument
Baglama
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a long necked Turkish lute, with a pear shaped body, also found in Greece