Cetara

For the Italian town on the Amalfi Coast, see Cetara, Campania. For the wider category of early string instruments, see Cittern.
"Cetera" redirects here. For the singer, see Peter Cetera. For the company, see Cetera Financial Group.
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.

  1. ^ Salvatore VIALA (1842). Dionomachia; poemetto eroi-comico. Terza edizione, ricorretta. pp. 90–.
  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–.