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| a lute with two pegboxes, one for the stopped strings and the other for the bass strings, which run outside the fingerboard. |
archlute
large 16th-century bass lute provided with additional bass strings, or diapasons, and producing a deeper sound that could be used in orchestral basso continuo parts. The diapasons were tuned according to individual preference, usually in a descending scale from the lowest principal string
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