~ String instrument
Although originally built like a cittern, its 6-7 courses of strings were tuned more like a lute.
|from:||England, United Kingdom|
|invented by:||John Rose (16th century english instrument builder and inventor) (in 1560)|
|type of:||lute family|
|related instruments:||orpharion (Metal stringed renaissance lute.)|
|has hybrids:||baryton (Bowed with pluckable strings)|