Musicologist Richard Dumbrill now works by using the phrase more categorically to debate instruments that existed millennia ahead of the expression "lute" was coined.[26] Dumbrill documented much more than 3000 yrs of iconographic evidence with the lutes in Mesopotamia, in his reserve The Archaeomusicology of the Ancient Near East. https://music3ood11100.liberty-blog.com/35921640/rumored-buzz-on-music-oud