THE LUTE AND THE MANDOLINE, WITH SOME REMARKS ON SIG. GIOVANNI VAILATI IN CONNECTION WITH THEM

Those learned in musical archaeology and organography assure us that the Mandoline is the son of the Cither and the nephew of the Lute; the said instrument (still according to the learned in such matters) comes from the eoud of the Arabs, which the Turks called laouthah; the Spaniards, laoudo; the Provencals, laut and lahut; the Italians, lauto, leuto, and lituo; and the French, leut and luth. From luth, the French have formed luthier, a word still signifying a maker of stringed musical instruments.