Musicologist Richard Dumbrill these days employs the phrase far more categorically to debate instruments that existed millennia ahead of the time period "lute" was coined.[26] Dumbrill documented more than 3000 years of iconographic evidence for the lutes in Mesopotamia, in his guide The Archaeomusicology of the Ancient Near East. https://musicoud65554.affiliatblogger.com/87656666/getting-my-music-oud-to-work