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the Kutiyapi is a two-stringed, fretted boat-lute with beeswax frets?
the tambouras, a Greek traditional string instrument of the lute family and ancestor of the bouzouki, features movable frets?
in Dutch Golden Age painting a lute (example pictured), stocking or bird may represent a visual sexual pun?
early Baroque lutenist Michelagnolo Galilei was the younger brother of the renowned astronomer Galileo Galilei?
Flow my tears by English lutenist John Dowland (1563–1626) is not only his most popular song today, but was also the most widely known English song of the period?
Galileo's father Vincenzo Galilei was a noted Italian lutenist?

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