theorbo

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Early in the morning Mr. Hill comes to string my theorbo The theorbo was a bass lute.

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  1. noun A 17th-century lute having two sets of strings and an S-shaped neck with two sets of pegs, one set above and somewhat to the side of the other.

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  • The ensemble includes soprano Sally Sanford, Cathy Liddell on theorbo and Brent Wissick on viola da gamba. —  News for Charlottesville Daily Progress
  • A student of Johann Joseph Fux while in Vienna, the Bohemian-born Tůma had a fairly distinguished career, first as a singer and instrumentalist (organ, viola da gamba, and theorbo!) and later as Kapellmeister for his patron, Count Franz Ferdinand Kinsky, High Chancellor of Bohemia, and then for the dowager empress, widow of Emperor Karl VI. —  Ionarts
  • Italian early music specialist Rinaldo Alessandrini, seated at the harpsichord, leads a reduced ensemble of five strings plus theorbo in performances that stand out for their clarity and accuracy. —  Ionarts
  • The baroque cello lacked an endpin and is squeezed between the thighs in order to be played, horns, almost exclusively, lacked valves and were modulated solely by changing omberture, not to mention the fretted theorbo, which, even at no less than seven feet in length, is held like a guitar. —  The Tech - MIT's Student Newspaper
  • The principal accompaniment came from the theorbo and baroque guitar, eloquently played by Hank Heijink. —  WSJ.com: What's News US
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  1. French théorbe, from Italian tiorba.

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  1. = French théorbe, téorbe = Spanish tiorba, from Italian tiorba, a musical instrument: origin unknown.
 

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