chitarrone

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chi⋅tar⋅ro⋅ne

[kee-tuh-roh-ney; It. kee-tahr-raw-ne]

–noun, plural -ni [-nee]

an early musical stringed instrument of the lute family with a long neck and two pegboxes, one above the other.

Origin:
1730–40; < It, aug. of chitarra < Gk kithára lyre

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chitarrone

large bass lute, or archlute, developed in Rome about 1600. It was usually about 6 feet (less than 2 m) tall, with a normal lute body

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