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Instrument of the lute family. It has a smaler body than the Greek laouto, the peg box is shaped like that of the UD, and carries a set of four double strings, which are tuned in unison. The tuning
of the istrument is as follows and starting from lowest D- A - D- A. One characteristic of this lute is the layout of the fretting , which uses the Natural scale for the division and has 27 frets in the octave.
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