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The orpharion



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    Data:
  • Body shape: Other
  • Top: Flat
  • Back: Flat
  • Bridge: Fixed
  • Frets: Fixed
  • Strings: 8
  • Courses: 16 ( 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2)
  • Scale: 590-540 - 650-615 mm
One of the mysteries of the Elizabethan England. Not a single example of this remarkable instrument survives, but from written sources and pictures we know it was a smaller variant of the bandora, often with very ornate body shape and decorations.

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