colachon

English

Noun

colachon (plural colachons)

  1. Alternative form of colascione
    • 1913, E. Nugues, H. C. Pouget, C. H. Martin, Practical Manual for the Piano and Harmonium Tuner:
      The colachon is an instrument with a body like the lute and a very long neck; its total length is about 1 ½ metres.
    • 2003, Don Michael Randel, The Harvard Dictionary of Music, →ISBN, page 484:
      The colachon was sometimes tuned a fourth lower than the six-course mandora.
    • 2016, Jan W.J. Burgers, Tim Crawford, Matthew Spring, The Lute in the Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century, →ISBN:
      Jan van Kessel lived until 1679 and at that time, long-necked lute types appeared – the colachon and gallichon – and there are many pictures of long-necked lute types that do not correspond with the contemporary 'normal lutes.”
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