arpeggione

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian arpeggio + -one.

Noun

arpeggione (plural arpeggiones)

  1. A six-stringed musical instrument of the 19th century, fretted and tuned like a guitar but bowed like a cello, and held vertically between the knees.
    • 2007 February 1, Bernard Holland, “Schubert Whispers, Grieg Booms”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      Whether it is better on the original arpeggione, I am helpless to say.

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  • Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

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