Assertion: lute | /r/HasProperty | strung
Facets:
value: with 5 courses
type: OTHER
value: with carbon strings
type: OTHER
value: before …
type: TEMPORAL
value: before the more exact
type: OTHER
value: with higher tension nylon
type: OTHER
value: most commonly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: It is likely that most lutes during that period were relatively small, were strung with four courses and were usually plucked with a quill or plectrum (pick).
text: Throughout the early-to mid-16th century, lutes were most commonly strung with 5 courses and a single treble string.
text: Towards the end of the 16th century, it was not uncommon for lutes to be strung with ten or even eleven courses, and by the early 17th century lutes were built with upwards of fourteen courses (referred to as arciliuto (arch lutes) or theorboed lutes) and tuned in G, F or D-minor.
text: so well as you can open, (without frets) making all agreeing strings accord, in their several concords; and when you are so satisfied, then attempt the fixing of your frets to their certain places, and not before…and the more exact your lute is strung, the more readily will your frets find their places, and consequently your business of tuning the easier.
text: These lutes are strung with higher tension nylon or carbon strings (not courses) and have an action and string spacing that is somewhere between a traditional lute and a modern guitar.