About Our Words: Arpeggione
An article by columnist Isabel Bradley http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2009/08/music_to_warm_t_1.php brought the following response from Osamy Okumura, president of the Arpeggione Society, Japan.
My Arpeggione information publicity is reported in he "Unusual Instruments" site:
Arpeggione
As played by Berndt Bohman
Swedish Principal Cellist of
Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
(Guitar D'amore, Guitar+Violin_Cello)
Made by Osamu Okumura
President Arpeggione Society
Japan
http://www.siegelproductions.ca/fiddlefarmers/unusualinstruments.html
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.
The Modern -Arpeggione is a
string instrument built by
Osamu Okumura.
It is an acoustic, upright -fretted,
seven string instrument
tuned from a bass G up to E
(half-step below the high E on a guitar).
The body is larger than an acoustic guitar,
with an arched fingerboard
and bridge for bowing or picking.
Sincerely yours,
Osamu Okumura Ph.D.
Arpeggione Society, Japan
President
