Chiterra sarda explained

Chiterra sarda
Names:	Chitarra sarda, chitarrone, chitarra gigante
Image Capt:	A chiterra sarda
Background:	string
Classification:	String instrument
Hornbostel Sachs:	321.322
Hornbostel Sachs Desc:	Composite chordophone
Related:	Baritone guitar, Dreadnought guitar
Articles:	Music of Sardinia

The chiterra sarda (Sardinian for "Sardinian guitar") or chitarra sarda in Italian, is a large-bodied baritone guitar from Sardinia used primarily to accompany singers in the cantu a chiterra genre. The body is larger than a dreadnought guitar with a scale length of about 680mm.^[1] In Italian, it also goes by the names chitarrone and chitarra gigante, both referring to its large size.^[2]

Tuning

It is usually tuned a fourth lower than a standard guitar: B (Si) E (Mi) A (La) D (Re) F# (Fa#) B (Si).^[3]

Notable players

• Paolo Angeli

Notes and References

1. Atlas of Plucked Instruments: Southern Europe. https://www.atlasofpluckedinstruments.com/europe3.htm. Accessed November 15th, 2020
2. Fingerpicking.net. https://www.fingerpicking.net/le-chitarre-della-tradizione-popolare-italiana/. Accessed November 15th, 2020
3. Bernard Lortat-Jacob, Improvisation et modèle: le chant a guitare sarde, in «L'Homme», XXIV, 1, 1984