The penorcon is a

plucked string instrument Plucked string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by plucking the string (music), strings. Plucking is a way of pulling and releasing the string in such a way as to give it an impulse that causes the string to ...

with nine

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s of double strings, depicted in the treatise

Syntagma Musicum ''Syntagma Musicum (1614-1620)'' is a musical treatise in three volumes by the German composer, organist, and music theorist Michael Praetorius. It was published in Wittenberg and Wolfenbüttel. It is one of the most commonly used research source ...

(17th century) by

Praetorius Praetorius, Prätorius, Prætorius was the name of several musicians and scholars in Germany. In 16th and 17th century Germany it became a fashion for educated people named "Schulze," "Schultheiß," or "Richter (disambiguation), Richter" (which mea ...

.{{Cite web , last=Pittaway , first=Ian , date=2017-11-14 , title=Wired for sound: the bandora and orpharion , url=https://earlymusicmuse.com/bandora-orpharion/ , access-date=2023-05-01 , website=Early Music Muse , language=en-GB The sides of the instrument are scalloped and sometimes the resonance soundboard has no holes. In relation to the bandora, its body is a little broader, and in length, it is somewhat lesser. Its neck or fingerboard is quite wide. This instrument uses the following tuning: G′– A′ – C – D – G – c – e – a – d′. Music written for the penorcon has not been identified.

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