Hi there. Nice to be with you. Happy you could stick around. Like to introduce... "the Walkabouts English band.
Let's hear it for WAV on the Anglo Concertina,
And Verso playing the Cor Anglais,
Take it away Bertsverse on Recorder (English Flute, allegedly)
And Walkie on the Cittern (English guitar from Germany)
And now on lead vocals, Mr Doggerel himself, Walkaboutsverse!
Come on now! You all know the words......
"There'll always be an England....."

And looking very relaxed, Adolf Hitler on vibes... Nice!

"I like the idea of the European lute having evolved into different guitar-like instruments in different lands: Portuguese guitar, E. cittern, Russian balalaika, Italian mandolin, Greek bouzouki, Hawaiian ukulele, American lap-steel, African/American banjo, as well as the Spanish guitar" (from here).

WAV, the E guitar was developed in Germany, became popular in France and was brough to England by Italians. The Portuguese guitar was named that because guitar was a generic term, the bouzouki came from several bastardised Turkish instruments, it was only really played in hashish-dens until the 1960s, I believe, the ukulele derives from a Portuguese instrument, the banjo derives from african instruments which, like many Central Asian intruments, probably predate the lute.
The balalaika DOES NOT descend from the lute, but from Central Asian instruments.
The lute derives from the Arab oud, which probably derives from a Persian instrument, which may or may not have roos in ancient Mesopotamia.