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 | | The top (front of the instrument) is a thin flat slice of resonant wood as in a classical guitar, except oval or teardrop-shaped. |
| | The lute first appeared in Europe in the Middle Ages, transferred across the Muslim-Christian cultural divide in Spain, though it ceased to be played there by Christian musicians after about 1500. |
| | In the last few decades of the 15th century, in order to play Renaissance polyphony on a single instrument, lutenists gradually abandoned the quill in favor of plucking the instrument with the soft pads of the fingers and thumb (not with the nails, as is the modern practice for |
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