THEORBO (Fr. Théorbe, Tuorbe; Ital. Tiorba or Tuorba, also Archiliuto). The large double-necked lute with two sets of tuning pegs, the lower set holding the strings which lie over the fretted fingerboard, while the upper set are attached to the bass strings, or so-called diapasons, which are used as open notes. The illustration has been engraved from a specimen at South Kensington Museum. According to Baron's ‘Untersuchung des Instruments d. Lauten
’ (Nürnberg 1727, p. 131), the Paduan theorbo was...
