Scan 160
The M. Steinert collection of keyed and stringed instruments, 1893
2 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 156. See the scan on archive.org.
1tuned thus: E, A, D, G, C (the second below middle C); some had also six strings. The viola da spalla was the same as the viola da gamba. Arpeggione or guitar violoncello, a stringed instrument played with a bow, which was invented by G. Staufer of Vienna in 1823. It is of the size of the viola da gamba, the shape of the body something like that of the guitar. The finger board has frets, and it has six strings. Schubert's interesting Sonata in A, for piano and arpeggione, written in 1824, was composed for this instrument.
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