The rubab is a common lute-like instrument in Afghanistan, and is the forerunner of the Indian sarod.

The use of lute-like instruments by the inhabitants of the lands that now constitute Ukraine dates back to 591.

In that year Byzantine Greek chronicles mention Bulgar warriors who travelled with lute-like instruments which they call "kitharas".

His father taught him to play the kora, a 21-stringed, lute-like instrument invented by Susso's ancestors, when he was five years old.

He learned to play the tar and the tanbur (both lute-like instruments), as well as the violin, and immersed himself in the shashmaqam genre.

First developed as a four course, twelve string lute-like instrument with a jazz harp sound that creates tight close-chord harmony.

She sings in Ukrainian and plays the bandura, a lute-like instrument.

The barbat or barbud, also sometimes called barbiton, is an unrelated lute-like instrument derived from Persia.

Harry taught himself to play the violin and the oud, a lute-like instrument, said Marion, a former semiprofessional singer.

The band takes its name from the lute-like instrument the xalam.