Musicologist Richard Dumbrill these days uses the term far more categorically to discuss instruments that existed millennia ahead of the expression "lute" was coined.[26] Dumbrill documented over 3000 many years of iconographic proof to the lutes in Mesopotamia, in his guide The Archaeomusicology of The traditional Close to East. https://music3ood99887.blazingblog.com/35721701/the-definitive-guide-to-music-oud