archlute

archlute
/ahrch"looht'/, n.
a lute with two pegboxes, one for the stopped strings and the other for the bass strings, which run outside the fingerboard.
[1720-30; ARCH-1 + LUTE, modeled on It archiliuto]

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      large 16th-century bass lute provided with additional bass strings, or diapasons, and producing a deeper sound that could be used in orchestral basso continuo parts. The diapasons were tuned according to individual preference, usually in a descending scale from the lowest principal string.

      There were three main varieties of archlute: the chitarrone, theorbo (qq.v.), and theorbo-lute, or French lute. The angelica, or angel lute, of the 17th and 18th centuries, was related but had diatonically tuned strings and no frets.

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