I'll go ahead and post this without checking the facts first:

I believe that Paul Stooky (or was it Peter Yarrow? Whichever of them wrote "The Wedding Song") played (may still play) an instrument called a laud (possibly with the diacritical mark over the u) - it looked like a small twelve string guitar with a lute shaped body, and I suspect it was tuned like a guitar (possibly higher or lower than standard guitar, but with the same intervals.) I saw him playing it on one of those Peter, Paul, and Mary television specials.

I believe that Nick Appolonio (of Maine) used to make these instruments (may still do, for all I know.) Does Gordon Bok also play one?

Don