lutes

The charmers then produced a couple of instruments which Sir Modava called lutes, looking more like a dried-up summer crookneck squash, with a mouthpiece, and a tube with keys below the bulb.

Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East Oliver Optic 1859

Athenaeus, who lived at the end of the second and beginning of the third century, A.D., speaks of orchestras of six hundred in Ptolemy Philadelphus's time (300 B.C.), and says that three hundred of the players were harpers, in which number he probably includes players on other stringed instruments, such as lutes and lyres.

Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Edward MacDowell 1884

They are sometimes categorised as Psych folk or as Medieval folk rock, but their music was much more a reinvention of Renaissance music, based around the use of period instruments such as lutes and recorders.

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Here and there, a few strummed lutes or fingered a virginal, but most were occupied with dice and cards.

Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

Here and there, a few strummed lutes or fingered a virginal, but most were occupied with dice and cards.

Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

The script, by EV Crowe, was packed tight with goodies for those listening carefully a great joke about lutes comes and goes in a beat, and I found Paul Woodson captivating as Charlie, a charmer and a tireless blusterer who betrays a growing panic, even as he repeats the mantra "Yes, me, now" to hearten himself for revolt.

Edinburgh fringe theatre roundup 2011

Her harmonically exploratory, third movement cadenza sounded freshly composed on the spot, and her dreamy, exotically pitch-bent treatment of the concerto's slow movement (against very Middle Eastern-sounding color from the droning bass and skittering arpeggios on the lutes) proved an atmospheric delight.

English Concert at Library of Congress Anne Midgette 2010

The strings and the continuo lutes had a fiercely tart and tangy sound, deliberately unsensual and arresting.

The Sad Tale It Tells Is Myth; Its Joys, Real Heidi Waleson 2011

Swapping lutes for zithers continues to pay off: the price of Zithers is on the rise.

Time Travel Telephone A.G. Pasquella 2011

A lot of the images feature very British items lutes, plates with Prince Harry's face on them, etc.

HUFFPOST HILL - GOP Announces Super Soviet Comrades Eliot Nelson 2011