• (Celtic Harp) Irish bouzouki (Octave mandolin) Italy: Calabrian Lira (Calabria) Chitarra battente ("knocking guitar") Chitarrone Liuto cantabile (Naples)...
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    guitarist. In 2002, he formed the guitar ensemble Nova Lira Orfeo XXI, which was based on Lira Orfeo, a Barcelona music society of which Miguel Llobet...
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  • he is a recipient of the prestigious Chitarra d'Oro (Golden Guitar) in the category of Una Vita per la Chitarra (A Life for the Guitar) awarded by the...
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    spalla. On the Night of the Arts 2015, the instrument in focus was the lira-chitarra, played by Eleonora Vulpiani from Italy. The next instrument presented...
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    the 1957 Festival, where Claudio Villa came first with Corde della mia chitarra. Rucher took part in many musical events and radio and television broadcasts...
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  • cembalo: A hammered dulcimer chitarra: A guitar, also a voice in trallalero ensembles that imitates the guitar chitarra battente: A four- or five-steel...
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    also called the guitarra in Spain, guiterne or guiterre in France, the chitarra in Italy and quintern in Germany. A popular instrument with court musicians...
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    Charles Mareschal claimed to have invented it in 1780, what he called the Lira Anacreòntica. Mareschal was a prominent French luthier, and accused the French...
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    four- or five-stringed guitar called the chitarra battente, and a three-stringed, bowed fiddle called the lira, which is also found in similar forms in...
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  • related events from 1972. January 6: Nicola Di Bari wins Canzonissima with Chitarra suona più piano. January 26: The doctor Massimo Inardi, an expert in classical...
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