lute

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In his homeland he was a celebrated musician, a player of the oud, a type of lute.

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In another, a Kazakh man serenades a group of friends with a traditional two-stringed lute while sitting in a yurt.

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Watch the musician Gao Hong absolutely jam on the Chinese pipa, the pear-shaped lute, for an evening hosted by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art.

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Inspired by her first concert, from the virtuoso guitarist Andrés Segovia, and spurred by an extreme bout of homesickness, Kilcher picked up a lute and began singing odes to Alaska.

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The lute has a larger dynamic range, and the harpsichord palette is a bit less.

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