Kink neck lute

Buckle neck lute on a painting by Hans Holbein the Younger

Angled neck sounds are lutes with the body for the next short neck and a bent back peg box . In a narrower sense, the lute that came to Europe from around the 10th century is called this.

Kink neck lutes are a special form of the short neck lute, which in turn contrasts with the long neck lute with a straight long neck. According to the Hornbostel-Sachs system , all belong to the neck lute. A division according to the shape of the neck is not made there.

Some buckle necks

• Barbat , Persian lute and precursor to the Arabic oud
• Koboz , pear-shaped Hungarian lutecalled cobză in Romania and the Republic of Moldova . Related to the kobsa in Ukraine . It is named after the Central Asian long-necked lute komuz
• Gambus Hadramaut , buckling neck lute in Islamic music of Indonesia and Malaysia
• Oud , Arabic lute, forerunner of the European lute
• Pipa , pear-shaped Chinese lute