Colachon

The colachon is an instrument with a body like the lute and a very long neck; its total length is about 1 ½ metres.

The colachon was sometimes tuned a fourth lower than the six-course mandora.

Jan van Kessel lived until 1679 and at that time, long-necked lute types appeared – the colachon and gallichon – and there are many pictures of long-necked lute types that do not correspond with the contemporary 'normal lutes.”