The history of this musical instrument began exactly 200 years ago in the workshop of the Austrian guitar and violin maker - Johann Stauffer.
He was like Leonardo da Vinci and Nicola Tesla far ahead of time with his ideas.
It should be noted that one of his innovations was the Vienna guitar. Namely, this instrument became a prototype of the first guitar of the all-known Martin guitar company. Since Martin was a trainee of Stauffer.

The first instrument was made for the guitarist virtuoso experimentalist of the time, Vincent Schuster.

And the arpeggione was perpetuated in centuries by composer Franz Schubert. He composed a sonata for Arpeggione.

It was this sonata that kept this instrument from disappearing. From time to time, there is interest in Arpeggione among experimental musicians.

The expressive possibilities of arpeggione are quite clearly shown below in the demonstration videos.
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