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A performance on the near extinct arpeggione🤌

“Imagine an instrument shaped and tuned like a six-string guitar, with a fretted neck like a bass viol, played between the knees and bowed like a cello. Such hybrids rarely live for long, and this instrument, invented in 1823 and known as the arpeggione, is now remembered by the only major work composed for it: Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata of November 1824. A handful of arpeggiones survive, but the sonata is now almost invariably played in adaptations for cello or viola.”

A performance on the near extinct arpeggione🤌

“Imagine an instrument shaped and tuned like a six-string guitar, with a fretted neck like a bass viol, played between the knees and bowed like a cello. Such hybrids rarely live for long, and this instrument, invented in 1823 and known as the arpeggione, is now remembered by the only major work composed for it: Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata of November 1824. A handful of arpeggiones survive, but the sonata is now almost invariably played in adaptations for cello or viola.”
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