LUTE - A stringed instrument that has a fretted fingerboard, a body in the shape of half a pear, and was prominent during the Western Middle Ages and Renaissance. It is a descendant from the Arab instrument, 'ud.

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lute has fretted keyboard
lute uses fretted keyboard
lute derived from _ud
lute has shape half-pear shape
lute is included in strings