a large member of the lute family, in use from the sixteenth- to eighteenth-centuries, with an extended neck and two sets of strings, one set being fretted and fingered like those of the standard lute, the second, longer set of strings being tuned to the diatonic scale and designed to be played open Third an interval spanning two diatonic scale steps
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