Penorcon
{{Short description|Rare, early plucked string instrument}}
The penorcon is a plucked string instrument with nine courses of double strings,{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5676891 |title=The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians |date=1980 |others=Stanley Sadie, George Grove, South China Printing Company |isbn=0-333-23111-2 |location=London |oclc=5676891}} depicted in the treatise Syntagma Musicum (17th century) by Praetorius.{{Cite web |last=Pittaway |first=Ian |date=2017-11-14 |title=Wired for sound: the bandora and orpharion |url=https://earlymusicmuse.com/bandora-orpharion/ |access-date=2023-05-01 |website=Early Music Muse |language=en-GB}} The sides of the instrument are scalloped and sometimes the resonance soundboard has no holes. In relation to the bandora, its body is a little broader, and in length, it is somewhat lesser. Its neck or fingerboard is quite wide.
This instrument uses the following tuning: G′– A′ – C – D – G – c – e – a – d′.