Orpharion          

              The Orpharion  Or Opherion  May Be A Plucked Instrument From The Renaissance. It's A Part Of The Cithern Family. Its Construction Is Analogous To The Larger Bandora. The Metal Strings area Unit Tuned Sort Of A Lute And Area Unit Plucked With The Fingers. Therefore, The Orpharion Is Used Rather Than A Lute. The Nut Associated Bridge Of An Orpharion Area Unit Generally Aslope, In Order That The String Length Will Increase From Treble To Bass. Attributable To The Very Low-Voltage Metal Strings, Which Might Simply Distort The Notes Once Pushed Down, The Frets Were Virtually Flush With The Fingerboard, That Was Gently Crenate. Like All Metal-Strung Instruments Of The Time, A Really Touch With The Plucking Hand Was Needed, Quite Totally Different From The trickster Attack Used On The Lute.

             The Orpharion Was Made-Up In England Within The Half Of The Sixteenth Century. In Sources Of English Music It's typically Mentioned As Another To The Lute. Per Stow's "Annals" (1631), John Rose Of Bride well Made-Up The Instrument In 1581. There's A Rose Orpharion In Helmingham Hall That Was Allegedly Given As A Present To Queen Elizabeth, And Will Preferably Be That 1st Example. It's Half Dozen Courses And Therefore The Bridge And Nut square Measure Parallel. The Sole Alternative Living Orpharion, Currently Within The Roman Emperor assortment In Kobenhavn, Has Nine Courses With Sloping Frets, And Dates To 1617.

The Name Of Orpharion Comes From "Orpheus" And "Arion".