Today we would like to draw your attention to the orpharion, a plucked string instrument from the time of the Renaissance. Its name – which in Michael Praetorius’s Syntagma Musicum (Vol. 2, 1619, Plate XVII) appears as “Orpheoreon” – refers to two singers from Greek mythology: Orpheus, who enchanted both people and animals with his music, and the kitharode Arion of Lesbos, who w...
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