Cetara

{{Short description|Corsican stringed musical instrument}}

{{for multi|the Italian town on the Amalfi Coast|Cetara, Campania|the wider category of early string instruments|Cittern}}

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The cetera or cetara is a plucked string instrument played in Corsica. It has sixteen, or sometimes eighteen, metal strings, running in paired courses,{{cite book|author=Salvatore VIALA|title=Dionomachia; poemetto eroi-comico. Terza edizione, ricorretta|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2R1bAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA90|year=1842|pages=90–}} with a body similar to the mandolin, but larger, and is plucked with a plectrum made of horn or tortoiseshell.{{cite book|author=Ferdinand Gregorovius|title=Corsica in Its Picturesque, Social, and Historical Aspects: The Record of a Tour in the Summer of 1852|url=https://archive.org/details/corsicainitspic00greggoog|year=1855|publisher=Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans|pages=[https://archive.org/details/corsicainitspic00greggoog/page/n297 276]–}}

The Italian term also occurs in historical sources and usually interpreted to indicate a musical instrument of the cittern family.