Hornbostel - Sachs
type: ConceptScheme

Lutes
type: Concept
narrower: Handle lutes
notation: 321

Handle lutes
type: Concept
broader: Lutes
definition: One or more strings are stretched between fixed points. The string bearer and the resonator are organically united and cannot be separated without destroying the instrument. The plane of the strings runs parallel with the sound-table. The string bearer is a plain handle. Subsidiary necks, as e.g. in the Indian prasarini vina are disregarded, as also are lutes with strings distributed over several necks, like the harpolyre, and those like the lyre-guitars, in which the yoke is merely ornamental.
in scheme: Hornbostel - Sachs
narrower: Spike lutes
narrower: Half-spike lutes or tanged lutes
narrower: Necked lutes
notation: 321.3

Spike lutes
type: Concept
broader: Handle lutes
notation: 321.31

Necked lutes
type: Concept
broader: Handle lutes
notation: 321.32

Half-spike lutes or tanged lutes
type: Concept
broader: Handle lutes
notation: 321.33