chitarrone

[ kee-tuh-roh-ney; Italian kee-tahr-raw-ne ] show ipa. noun,plural chi·tar·ro·ni [kee-tuh-roh-nee]. an early musical stringed instrument of the lute family with a long neck and two pegboxes, one above the other.

A theorbo, also sometimes called a chitarrone, is a lute with a long neck extension. A theorbo has two pegboxes, one at the top of the fingerboard and the other at the end of the extension. The extended neck is necessary allows for a clear and sustained sound from low bass strings.

A lute is a stringed instrument, and was one of the most commonly played instruments of European music in the Renaissance era (1300-1600.) With its wooden and pear-shaped body, it looks like a cross between a mandolin (commonly used in Bluegrass music) and an acoustic guitar, but has a crooked neck.

The theorbo The theorbo has a long neck – some as long as six feet. It has two sets of strings – a longer set tuned with pegs at the top of the fret board (for the deeper range), and a shorter set tuned by pegs on the sides of the fret board (for the higher range).

These instruments can play in any microtonal scale out-of-the-box, because 12edo is not a part of their manufacture:

• Daxophone.
• Fretless string instruments. Fretless bass.
• Musical saw.
• String instruments with one pitch per string. Hammered dulcimer.
• Theremin.
• Wind instruments with a slide or other continuous pitch control.

Unlike most of the other players in the orchestra, a percussionist will usually play many different instruments in one piece of music. The most common percussion instruments in the orchestra include the timpani, xylophone, cymbals, triangle, snare drum, bass drum, tambourine, maracas, gongs, chimes, celesta, and piano.

One of the main differences between the Indian santoor and its cousins is the shape. Other struck zithers, like the Kashmiri or Persian versions, are much wider than the santoor and are traditionally played while sitting on a stand with the player seated before it.

A sitar can have 18, 19, 20, or 21 strings; 6 or 7 of these run over curved, raised frets and are played strings; the remainder are sympathetic strings (tarb, also known as taarif or tarafdaar), running underneath the frets and resonating in sympathy with the played strings.

Cervical kyphosis (SUR-vih-kull kye-FOE-sis) is when the top of the spine curves in the opposite direction than normal. That can lead to problems.

The neck is the part of certain string instruments that projects from the main body and is the base of the fingerboard, where the fingers are placed to stop the strings at different pitches. Guitars, banjos, ukuleles, lutes, the violin family, and the mandolin family are examples of instruments which have necks.

The trumpet, trombone, and other brass instruments represent excitement and energy. The violin and other string instruments represent cold, sadness, tranquility, sympathy, fragility, and joy (Vivaldi's “Spring” for instance).

Violins, banjos, mandolins all have 4 strings and the same notes so if you know how to pluck in of them, you know how to pluck all of them.