orpharions
Identification code: 300042022
Hierarchy classification:
- top of the aat hierarchies
- Objects Facet
- Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
- Sound Devices (hierarchy name)
- sound devices (equipment)
- [sound devices by acoustical characteristics]
- chordophones
- lutelike chordophones
- lutelike chordophones: plucked
- [lutelike chordophones with long neck: plucked]
- citterns
Alternative term/s
- orpharion
Anotations
Scope note:
Large wire-strung citterns popular in the 17th century, with slanting bridge and frets, tuned like the lute and interchangeable with it in much of the music written for either.
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