lute
Troubadour's pear-shaped instrument
A lute is a stringed musical instrument with a pear-shaped body and a neck with frets, plucked like a guitar.
It was the dominant instrument of European secular music from the medieval period through the baroque era: a Renaissance lute, lute songs.
The word also names an unrelated clay or cement used to seal joints in laboratory equipment or pipes.
Aromatic heartwood or plucked instrument
- archluteLarge lute with extended bass strings
- mandolinPlucked eight-string lute descendant
- sitarIndian plucked lute
- biwaJapanese plucked string instrument
guitarron · rebec · psaltery · chordophone · plucked · fretboard · pegbox · soundhole
Tone-amplifying wooden surface
- rosewoodTropical cabinet timber
- spruceNeat; also a conifer
- ebonyDense dark tropical wood
- pegboxTuning mechanism enclosure
frets · courses · bowl · ribs · neck · bridge · inlay · craftsmanship
Aromatic heartwood or plucked instrument
Traveling performer of songs
- troubadourMedieval Provençal lyric poet
- bardPoet of epics
- madrigalUnaccompanied Renaissance choral composition
- courtlyRefined and dignified
renaissance · baroque · medieval · consort · pavane · elizabethan · patronage · chamber
oud
Aromatic heartwood or plucked instrument
- archluteLarge lute with extended bass strings
- mandolinPlucked eight-string lute descendant
- sitarIndian plucked lute
biwa · guitarron · rebec · psaltery · chordophone · plucked · fretboard · pegbox · soundhole · rosette
soundboard
Tone-amplifying wooden surface
pegbox · frets · courses · bowl · ribs · neck · bridge · inlay · craftsmanship · woodworking
oud
Aromatic heartwood or plucked instrument
minstrel
Traveling performer of songs
- troubadourMedieval Provençal lyric poet
- bardPoet of epics
- madrigalUnaccompanied Renaissance choral composition
courtly · renaissance · baroque · medieval · consort · pavane · elizabethan · patronage · chamber · serenade
clay
Moldable earth for ceramics
- Baroque MusicBach, Vivaldi, Handel, harpsichord, Vivaldi Four Seasons
- ancient musiclyre, pan pipes, panpipes, tibia, shofar
- Early Musicmedieval music, Gregorian chant, Renaissance music, motet, baroque music
- medievalknights, castles, cathedral, kings, queens
- Arabic loanwordsalgebra, algorithm, alcohol, alchemy, alkali
- European instrumentsaccordion, bagpipes, balalaika, bandura, bodhran
luteelectric guitar
Amplified stringed instrument
synthesizer · keytar · drum machine · electronic keyboard · sampler
luteunseal
Remove a fastening from
open · break the seal · unplug · uncork