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daharttoday at 7:29 PM1 replyview on HN

Multi-course ouds and lutes of course predate anything resembling the modern guitar by a long, long way. Do you consider those in the “guitar family”? If so, I’d refer to the group as oud or lute family. Guitar family is a recent subset of lute family, and doesn’t even contain the first multi-course instruments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Guitar_family_instrum...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_lute-family_instrum...


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dhosektoday at 7:57 PM

I was being loose with terminology, but yes, oud/lute family is more accurate.