Arpeggione
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The arpeggione is a six-stringed musical instrument, fretted and tuned like a guitar, but bowed like a cello, and thus similar to the viola da gamba. It enjoyed a brief vogue after its invention around 1823. One of the more well-known musical works written for it was a sonata by Franz Schubert, but this is now more commonly played on a cello.
