lute

C18752
concept

A lute is a plucked stringed musical instrument with a deep, rounded back, a flat front with a sound hole, and a fretted neck, historically used in European and Middle Eastern music.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
lute canonical 5
long-necked lute 2
lute family instrument 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: lute
Generated description
A lute is a plucked stringed musical instrument with a deep, rounded back, a flat front with a sound hole, and a fretted neck, historically used in European and Middle Eastern music.

Instances (9)

Instance Via concept surface
sapeh (lute)
surface form: sapeh
Sanshin
gambus
tar
surface form: tar (Persian lute)
long-necked lute
Sanxian
sarod lute family instrument
duitara plucked lute
pipa
Chitrali sitar long-necked lute