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What is an archlute?

What is an archlute? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (music) A fretted and double-necked stringed musical instrument with a large body, double courses in the bass, and two sets of tuning pegs.
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The archlute and the chitarrone or theorbo had, in addition to the strings on the fingerboard, open bass strings on an extended neck with a second pegbox.
A fine reproduction of Lady Mary Sidney and her archlute faces the title-page of the book.
I can read and write, and my mother taught me to play upon the archlute and to sing.
Playing on an archlute, Cherici also performed a second half of 17 th-century French music for the lute, the best of which was by Pierre Ballard.
The archlute, or bass-theorbo, is the largest sized kind of the theorbo, or lute with a double neck.
Other instruments that were derived from the lute are the archlute, the theorbo and the chitarrone.

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