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LUTE QUIZ


  Craig of Farrington's Lute Quiz

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1.  In what book of the Holy Bible can you find the lute mentioned?

GENESIS
EXODUS
PSALMS

2.  In what part of the world was the direct ancestor of the lute developed?

AFRICA
AUSTRALIA
MIDDLE EAST

3. What materials were used in the earliest lute-like instruments?

SKINS
SHELLS
BONES
ALL OF THE ABOVE

4. What instrument, still common in the Arabian world, is the direct ancestor of the lute?
            (HINT:  The word means "wood".)

AULOS
UD
HARP

5. What popular folk/rock instrument can trace its ancestry to the lute?

GUITAR
FLUTE
FIDDLE

6. What do we call a person who plays the lute?

LUTENIST
LUTHIER
LOOTER

7. What do we call a person who makes lutes --- and guitars?

LUTENIST
LUTHIER
LOOTER

8. What do we call the fancy holes cut into the faces of lutes & uds?

CARNATIONS
FLOWERS
ROSETTES

9. What off-white material is often found on UD's, but rarely found on lutes?

BONE
IVORY
SOAPSTONE

10. What material was (until recent times) the main source of lute strings?

ANIMAL GUT
PLANT VINES