what is a lute
The lute is a plucked-string musical instrument. The lute was popular and widely used in Europe from about the twelfth century AD until well into the eighteenth century.After a period of disuse lasting more than a hundred years, interest in it slowly revived during the twentieth century.n the field of organology, the systematic study of musical instruments, the term lute is broader and more generic and includes, for example, the oriental pi pa and biwa, the arabic âoud and gourd-based instruments of sub-Saharan Africa.
The lute is an instrument with a long history and has been found throughout the Eastern Hemisphere. Lute-like instruments were played in Mesopotamia as early as 2000 B.C. and in Egypt as early as 1500 B.C. But it did not find its way to Europe until after A.D. 900.