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Thread #110424 Message #2318700
Posted By: GUEST,The Mole Catcher's unplugged Apprentice
17-Apr-08 - 05:48 PM
Thread Name: England's National Musical-Instrument?
Subject: RE: England's National Musical-Instrument?
kytrad, on the wikipedia page for the lute it' states the the instrument is of European origin and that:
'The European lute and the Near-Eastern oud both descend from a common ancestor, with diverging evolutionary paths'
-sourced from Wikipedia
Some Further Lute History
From what I've seen so far, the lute definitely isn't English
Charlotte R