From the Library: Lutes, Ouds, and Guitars

These stringed instruments are featured on today's From the Library in both instrumental settings and as accompaniment to vocalists. Included for some variety are Baroque and classical guitar and oud (itself a type of lute).

Today's program is from the library of Otenth Paderborn and is produced by gullar sahir in conjunction with the Alexandrian Free Library Consortium of Second Life. You can listen to the program now at http://loudcity.com/stations/radio-riel/tune_in; outside the US, tune to http://main.radioriel.org, or simply click here if your browser is configured to launch a player automatically.

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(Image: A man playing a lute, painted by Jan Kupetzky, ca. 1711)