A helpful description of the lute found on the Wikipedia Renaissance
music page:
Lute: The lute is simply any plucked instrument without a neck. In
the medieval ages it had 4 or 5 Strings and was considered a much
more dignified instrument that the guitar. It is similar in its
construction to that of the guitar with the exclusion of its neck,
and how it is played, as it is played in string singularity instead
of strummed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_music
I'm inclined to leave it as a nice bit of misinformation.
Andrew
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