Assertion: zither | /r/HasProperty | soundbox
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text: Although van Gulik admits the qin is organologically a zither (a soundbox with strings across), he calls it a lute (a generic term for instruments in which the strings extend along a fingerboard as well as across the soundbox) because in medieval Western society the function of the aristocratic lute most closely matched that of the qin in Chinese society.