noun
- strings made from animal gut used on lutes and other stringed musical instruments
Usage: historical; music
Examples
- The musician carefully replaced the broken lutestrings before the concert.
- Authentic baroque performances often use lutestrings made from sheep intestines.
- The luthier specialized in crafting traditional lutestrings for period instruments.
- Modern synthetic strings have largely replaced historical lutestrings in most performances.
- The delicate lutestrings required frequent tuning in humid weather.
- She imported genuine lutestrings from Italy for her Renaissance lute.