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Penorcon

rare, early plucked string instrument

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ21707063 ↗
Source-derived summary

The penorcon is a plucked string instrument with nine courses of double strings, depicted in the treatise Syntagma Musicum (17th century) by Praetorius. 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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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Penorcon” as rare, early plucked string instrument. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 94-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Penorcon, rare and early can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Penorcon” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.