{{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}} {{Redirect|Cetera|the singer|Peter Cetera|the company|Cetera Financial Group}} right|thumb|220px|A Corsican cetara
The '''''cetera''''' or '''''cetara''''' is a plucked string instrument played in Corsica. It has sixteen, or sometimes eighteen, metal strings, running in paired courses,<ref name="VIALA1842">{{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–}}</ref> with a body similar to the mandolin, but larger, and is plucked with a plectrum made of horn or tortoiseshell.<ref name="Gregorovius1855">{{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]–}}</ref>
The Italian term also occurs in historical sources and usually interpreted to indicate a musical instrument of the cittern family.
== See also == * Cetra * Cittern * Roland Ferrandi
== References == {{reflist}}
==External links== * [https://stringedinstrumentdatabase.aornis.com/c.htm Cetara] at The Stringed Instrument Database
Category:Early musical instruments Category:Mandolin family instruments Category:Corsican musical instruments