| LC control no. | sh 85007412 |
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| Topical heading | Arpeggione |
| Variant(s) | Bowed guitar Guitar violoncello |
| See also | Bowed stringed instruments |
| Found in | New Grove dict. of mus. online (Jan. 18, 2013) (guitar violoncello, bowed guitar; A bowed string instrument. Both J.G. Staufer (Stauffer) of Vienna and Peter Teufelsdorfer of Pest claimed to be inventors of what came to be known as the arpeggione. Both built a new instrument they called a 'bowed guitar', and both introduced their respective instruments in the spring of 1823 ... The instrument was essentially a bass viol with a guitar-type tuning, E--A--d--g--b--eʹ) New Harvard dict. of mus. (A bowed guitar invented by J.G. Staufer in 1824. It is the size of a cello, its bridge and fingerboard are curved, its neck is fretted, and its six strings are tuned like those of the guitar, E A d g b eʹ) |
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