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A bowed string instrument, the arpeggione was invented in Vienna by J. G. Stauffer in 1823–24. A kind of bass viol, with soundholes like a viol, it is waisted, but shaped more like a large guitar than a viol or double bass. Six-stringed and with metal frets, it was tuned E, A, d, ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

the Greenwood Tree. Mendelssohn’s St Paul (1836) has a part for serpentist which later generations have found difficult to staff. Styles & Forms | Early Romantic | Classical Instruments | Arpeggione | Early Romantic | Classical ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie
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