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 bass viola da gamba. It enjoyed a brief vogue, perhaps a decade, after its invention around 1823, by the Viennese guitar maker Johann Georg Staufer (1778-1853). The only notable piece extant for the instrument is a sonata with piano accompaniment by Franz Schubert, D821, not actually published until 1871, when the arpeggione was long defunct; this is now more commonly played on a cello, viola, or other medium-ranged instruments, though the piece is often played on the double bass as well. There is also an arrangement for flute, the first movement of which is currently on the grade 8 flute syllabus (ABRSM).
Arpeggione is also the name for a noted contemporary French string quartet, Quatuor Arpeggione (de Paris).
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