Barbat (lute)
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barbat-lute-187-4206521
title:
Barbat (lute)
text:
The barbat or barbud is a lute of Greater Iranian or Persian origin, and widespread across Central Asia, especially since the Sassanid Empire. Barbat is characterized as carved from a single piece of wood, including the neck and a wooden sound board. Possibly a skin-topped instrument for part of its history, it is ancestral to the wood-topped oud and biwa and the skin-topped Yemeni qanbus. Although the original barbat disappeared, modern Iranian luthiers have invented a new instrument, inspired
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Central Asian lute
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbat_(lute)
date created:
2006-01-02T02:28:47Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T09:26:17Z
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