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The clavichord is an example of a period instrument. In the historically informed performance movement, musicians perform classical music using restored or replicated versions of the instruments for which it was originally written. Often performances by such musicians are said to be "on authentic instruments".
Sometimes the panduri is also mistakenly called a "chonguri" - but the chonguri is a completely different instrument which comes from western Georgia; it is fretless, and it has a fourth, half-length drone string. Additionally, the chonguri is an instrument mainly played by women, while the panduri is usually played by men. [4] [5]
1700 Barbara Penny: Petri: 1700 Henri Petri [63] Dragonetti: 1700 Nippon Music Foundation [22] Formerly owned by Alfredo Campoli, now played by Veronika Eberle. Jupiter: 1700 Giovanni Battista Viotti: Owned and played since 1964 by Arnold Belnick, Los Angeles, California. Russian, Margaret, Berson [64] 1700 Taft; ex-Emil Heermann: 1700 Canada ...
In 1787 Luigi Bassi played the role of Don Giovanni in Mozart's opera, serenading a woman with a mandolin. This used to be the common picture of the mandolin, an obscure instrument of romance in the hands of a Spanish nobleman. [1] The mandolin is a modern member of the lute family, dating back to Italy in the 18th century.
In the 18th century, mandora was the name of a six-course lute instrument of about 70 cm string length, tuned high-to-low d' - a - f - c - G - F or e' - b - g - d - A - E (rarely with two or three additional bass courses). With the former tuning, the instrument was called Calichon or Galichon in Bohemia.
The Baroque guitar (c. 1600 –1750) is a string instrument with five courses of gut strings and moveable gut frets. The first (highest pitched) course sometimes used only a single string. The first (highest pitched) course sometimes used only a single string.
Photos of historic instruments. Photos of historic lutes at the Cité de la Musique in Paris; Instruments et oeuvres d'art – search-phrase: Mot-clé(s) : luth Facteurs d'instruments – search-phrase: Instrument fabriqué : luth Photothèque – search-phrase: Instrument de musique, ville ou pays : luth. Lutes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The English guitar or guittar (also citra) is a stringed instrument – a type of cittern – popular in many places in Europe from around 1750–1850. It is unknown when the identifier "English" became connected to the instrument: at the time of its introduction to Great Britain, and during its period of popularity, it was apparently simply known as guitar or guittar.