Renaissance Lutes are delicate and lightweight in construction and have usually 13 strings in seven double courses with a single top string. In the later Baroque era lutes became heavier and more ornate often having fifteen or more strings, and sometimes the addition of several unfretted sympathetic strings running beside the fingerboard and a straight extension to the peg head. (arch lute or theorbo)
Tunings and Fingerings
The lute is generally tuned in fourths more or less as a guitar.
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