Barbat (lute)
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The barbat (Persian: بربت) or barbud is a lute of Greater Iranian or Persian origin, and widespread across Central Asia, especially since the Sassanid Empire.[1] Barbat is characterized as carved from a single piece of wood, including the neck and a wooden sound board.[1] Possibly a skin-topped instrument for part of its history, it is ancestral to the wood-topped oud and biwa and the skin-topped Yemeni qanbus.[1][2][3][4]
Although the original barbat disappeared, modern Iranian luthiers have invented a new instrument, inspired by the Barbat.[5] The modern re-created instrument (Iranian Barbat) resembles the oud, although differences include a smaller body, longer neck, a slightly raised fingerboard, and a sound that is distinct from that of the oud.[5]