Bowed guitar

Bowed guitar (Fr.: guitare à archet; Ger.: Bogengitarre; It.: chitarra coll'arco), guitar invented in 1826 and played with a bow. It had *FF instead of a central soundhole and was said to have the timbre of the cor anglais. See also: arpeggione (176). Sachs, Curt. Reallexikon der Musikinstrumente. Berlin, 1913.