dyphonen.
/ˈdʌɪfəʊn/ Music.
The ‘double lute’, invented by Thomas Mace in 1672.
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1676 T. Mace Musick's Monument ii. xli. 203 Concerning the Dyphone: or Double-Lute, The Lute of Fifty Strings.
1676 T. Mace Musick's Monument ii. xli. 206 Since we are Thus Joyned Both in One, Henceforth Our Name shall be The Lute Dyphone.
1880 W. H. Husk in Grove Dict. Music II. 185 He [Mace] in 1672 invented a lute of 50 strings, which he termed the Dyphone, or Double Lute.
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