arpeggione (bass viol with guitar frets and tuning)

~ String instrument

Description

Invented in 1823, it had a body like a medieval fiddle, but had frets and tuning like the guitar.

Relationships

from:Wien, Austria
invented by:Johann Georg Stauffer (instrument inventor and guitar maker) (in 1823)
type of:bowed lute
Wikidata:Q638182 [info]