The cetera or cetara is a plucked string instrument played in Corsica. It has sixteen, or sometimes eighteen, metal strings, running in paired courses,[1] with a body similar to the mandolin, but larger, and is plucked with a plectrum made of horn or tortoiseshell.[2]
A Corsican cetara
The Italian term also occurs in historical sources and usually interpreted to indicate a musical instrument of the cittern family.
^Ferdinand Gregorovius (1855). Corsica in Its Picturesque, Social, and Historical Aspects: The Record of a Tour in the Summer of 1852. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. pp. 276–.
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Cetara at The Stringed Instrument Database
January 01, 1970
cetara, italian, town, amalfi, coast, campania, wider, category, early, string, instruments, cittern, cetera, redirects, here, singer, peter, cetera, company, cetera, financial, group, cetera, cetara, plucked, string, instrument, played, corsica, sixteen, some. For the Italian town on the Amalfi Coast see Cetara Campania For the wider category of early string instruments see Cittern Cetera redirects here For the singer see Peter Cetera For the company see Cetera Financial Group The cetera or cetara is a plucked string instrument played in Corsica It has sixteen or sometimes eighteen metal strings running in paired courses 1 with a body similar to the mandolin but larger and is plucked with a plectrum made of horn or tortoiseshell 2 A Corsican cetara The Italian term also occurs in historical sources and usually interpreted to indicate a musical instrument of the cittern family See also editCetra Cittern Roland FerrandiReferences edit Salvatore VIALA 1842 Dionomachia poemetto eroi comico Terza edizione ricorretta pp 90 Ferdinand Gregorovius 1855 Corsica in Its Picturesque Social and Historical Aspects The Record of a Tour in the Summer of 1852 Longman Brown Green and Longmans pp 276 External links editCetara at The Stringed Instrument Database Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Cetara amp oldid 1168014363, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
