Cetara

Short description: Corsican stringed musical instrument

For the Italian town on the Amalfi Coast, see Cetara, Campania. For the wider category of early string instruments, see Cittern.

A Corsican cetara

The cetera or cetara is a plucked string instrument played in Corsica. It has sixteen, or sometimes eighteen, metal strings, running in paired courses,[1] with a body similar to the mandolin, but larger, and is plucked with a plectrum made of horn or tortoiseshell.[2]

The Italian term also occurs in historical sources and usually interpreted to indicate a musical instrument of the cittern family.

## See also

* Cetra
* Cittern
* Roland Ferrandi

## References

1. ↑ Salvatore VIALA (1842). Dionomachia; poemetto eroi-comico. Terza edizione, ricorretta. pp. 90–. https://books.google.com/books?id=2R1bAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA90.
2. ↑ Ferdinand Gregorovius (1855). Corsica in Its Picturesque, Social, and Historical Aspects: The Record of a Tour in the Summer of 1852. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. pp. 276–. https://archive.org/details/corsicainitspic00greggoog.

## External links

* Cetara at The Stringed Instrument Database

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