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-- Main.NeilMurray - 13 Nov 2008
---+ Lute

This ancestor of the guitar has a pear-shaped<br /> bowl and a distinctive bent neck with frets for fingering.<br /> Between four and eight strings stretch between the base<br /> of the bowl and the top of the neck. Lutes vary between<br /> 30 and 36 inches in length, with the bowl taking up<br /> some two-thirds of that total. The musician either strums<br /> or plucks the strings to produce music.

<br /> A highly versatile instrument because of its wide<br /> range of notes and inflection, the lute is accessible to<br /> the beginner but capable of great subtlety in the hands<br /> of a master. The deep bowl gives it a rich, full sound un-<br /> like that of any other stringed instrument. It is by far the<br /> most popular instrument with bards, especially half-elf<br /> and human ones.

---++++++ Bardic Music

_The most popular of the three prime<br /> bardic instruments, the lute enables a performer to<br /> maintain one bardic music or virtuoso performance ef-<br /> fect while initiating another. Thus, a bard could maintain<br /> inspire competence on one listener while using suggestion<br /> on another._

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Topic revision: r2 - 07 Dec 2008 - 13:38:27 - DavidKeegel

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