Musicologist Richard Dumbrill currently takes advantage of the term more categorically to discuss 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://music3ood00999.canariblogs.com/the-2-minute-rule-for-music-oud-50510830