# Contraguitar

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{{Short description|Type of guitar}}
thumb|A Viennese "Schrammel guitar."The '''contraguitar''' or '''Schrammel guitar''' is a type of [guitar](/source/guitar) developed in [Vienna](/source/Vienna) in the mid-19th century. In addition to the usual guitar neck with six strings and a fretboard, it has a second, fretless neck with up to nine bass strings. Customarily these additional strings are tuned from E-flat downwards. The lowest string on the 15-string contraguitar is usually tuned to G. 

Viennese instrument maker [Johann Gottfried Scherzer](/source/Johann_Gottfried_Scherzer) developed the instrument after 1848, improving on earlier, unfinished efforts by [Johann Georg Stauffer](/source/Johann_Georg_Stauffer) (1778{{ndash}}1853), the master from whom Scherzer had learned his craft. 

The contraguitar is heard almost exclusively in Viennese folk music, especially [Schrammelmusik](/source/Schrammelmusik). Occasionally it is also used in Alpine folk music.

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* [http://permalink.obvsg.at/AC03221750 "Die Kontragitarre in Wien"] (diploma thesis) by Reinhard Kopschar
* [http://www.stauffer-and-co.com/ ''Stauffer & Co.: The Viennese guitar of the 19th Century''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200220225442/http://stauffer-and-co.com/ |date=2020-02-20 }} (book & CD) by Erik Pierre Hofmann, Pascal Mougin, and Stefan Hackl. {{ISBN|9782953886801}}

==See also==
*[Acoustic guitar](/source/Acoustic_guitar)
*[Combolin](/source/Combolin)
*[Harp guitar](/source/Harp_guitar)
*[Multi-neck guitar](/source/Multi-neck_guitar)
*[Schrammelmusik](/source/Schrammelmusik)

Category:Guitar family instruments

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