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Harp lute. The harp lute, or dital harp, is a musical instrument that combines features of harp and lute and to increase its compass of the latter. It was invented in 1795 by Edward Light, [1] (though an earlier form is shown in the "Garden of Earthly Delights" (~1500) by Hieronymus Bosch).
- History of Lute-Family Instruments
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- History of Lute-Family Instruments
Edward Light (1746/7 – 1832) was an English musician and inventor of the harp-lute . Little is known of his life; he was at one time organist of Trinity Chapel, Conduit Street, London. He endeavoured with ephemeral success to introduce improvements in the harp and guitar. He died in 1832, at the age of eighty-five. [1]
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A lute ( / ljuːt / [1] or / luːt /) is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted. More specifically, the term "lute" commonly refers to an instrument from the family of European lutes.
The original "proto" harp-lute was named the "Harp-Guitar" and was a distinct new instrument with its own form and construction that borrowed its tuning not from the guitar, but from the guittar (English Guittar), a cittern-like instrument. Thus the harp-lutes had their own tuning and tradition of musical literature.
