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201:, London, 1609. Robinson's book contains 5 pieces for a 14 course instrument and an illustration. The depiction appears to show 7 double string courses for the fingerboard and 7 open single string courses running up to a neck extension and presumably back inside to the pegbox. According to Robinson, the "...invention was first begun by an Italian in Italy, but altered, and strings augmented by me." 225: 160:
family) and used metal strings. The unfretted bass strings were attached to a neck extension, the instrument totalling perhaps as much as 1.5 metres in length. A single original example exists in
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Modern Ceterone constructed by Ron Banks of Texas, on which he uses a scalloped fretboard. This instrument has been modeled on the surviving Italian instrument by Campi.
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bass string tunings of eb, Bb, f, c, g, d, a, e, and treble strings tuned to b, g, d' and e'. The instrument has a body shape with constructional features similar to a
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Like the cittern, the ceterone was also built with a flat-backed body in teardrop shape, with a single large 'rose', and had fixed, metal frets (unlike the tied, gut
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in Florence, dating from around 1600 and built by the cittern luthier Gironimo Campi. The museum has labelled the instrument as an
285: 266: 27: 134:– a traditional regional cittern that survived until the present, has also been constructed with a similar body. 130:. Some early 17th century illustrations of citterns have body shapes resembling this instrument, while the Swiss 290: 259: 295: 210: 8: 300: 145:; (large six course cittern) – depicted with eight pegs inserted into the sides of the 252: 99: 39: 32: 119: 103: 240: 161: 236: 279: 176: 107: 58: 131: 85: 89: 81: 48: 146: 127: 73: 53: 183:, OUP 1976, supplied with the EMI boxed LP set of that name. 153: 232: 157: 123: 93: 224: 96:
to enhance the bass capabilities of these instruments.
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Classification
String instruments
Related instruments
Cittern
Cetera
GuitolĂŁo
cetera
cittern
chitarrone
chitarra
lute
Michael Praetorius
Syntagma Musicum
harpsichord
re-entrant
viol
guitar
halszither
pegbox
frets
lute
Museo Bardini
David Munrow

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lutes
stub
expanding it
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