Musicologist Richard Dumbrill today uses the term a lot more categorically to debate instruments that existed millennia ahead of the phrase "lute" was coined.[26] Dumbrill documented more than 3000 decades of iconographic evidence for the lutes in Mesopotamia, in his e book The Archaeomusicology of the Ancient Near East. https://music-oud32221.worldblogged.com/41865303/little-known-facts-about-music-3ood