Matheson, 1720, said, "If a lute-player has lived eighty years, he has surely spent sixty years tuning." ===Bridge=== The bridge, sometimes made of a fruitwood, is attached to the soundboard typically between a fifth and a seventh of the belly length.
In the second half of the 17th century lutes, vihuelas and similar instruments started losing popularity, and little music was written for the instrument after 1750.
The lute almost fell out of use after 1800.
A list of modern lute music written after 1815 Music Collection in Cambridge Digital Library.
The lute's design makes it extremely light for its size. == Lute in the modern world == The lute enjoyed a revival with the awakening of interest in historical music around 1900 and throughout the century.
The long lute had an attached neck, and included the sitar, tanbur and tar (dutār 2 strings, setār 3 strings, čārtār 4 strings, pančtār 5 strings). Sachs' book dates from 1941, and the archaeological evidence available to him placed the early lutes at about 2000 BC.
Singer-songwriter Sting has also played lute and archlute, in and out of his collaborations with Edin Karamazov, and Jan Akkerman released two albums of lute music in the 1970s while he was a guitarist in the Dutch rock band Focus.
This active movement by early music specialists has inspired composers in different fields; for example, in 1980, Akira Ifukube, a classical and film composer best known for the Godzilla's theme, wrote the Fantasia for Baroque Lute with the historical tablature notation, rather than the modern staff one. == Tuning conventions == Lutes were made in a large variety of sizes, with varying numbers of strings/courses, and with no permanent standard for tuning.
The long lute had an attached neck, and included the sitar, tanbur and tar (dutār 2 strings, setār 3 strings, čārtār 4 strings, pančtār 5 strings). Sachs' book dates from 1941, and the archaeological evidence available to him placed the early lutes at about 2000 BC.
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