found: Dowland, J. The English Orpheus [SR] p1989:program notes (Orpharion; a wire-strung bass bandora; the name combines the words Orpheus and Arion; 10 of 30 Elizabethan lute-song publications specifically mention the orpharion as an alternative to the lute)
found: Marcuse, S. Musical instruments(Orpharion; identical with the pandora but smaller; tuned like a lute; a substitute lute)
found: New Grove dict. mus. instruments(Orpharion; a wire-strung instrument of the bandora family, of similar scalloped shape but smaller and tuned like the lute; lute and orpharion regarded as interchangeable) under Bandora (a plucked chordophone classified as a lute)
found: New Grove Online, April 17, 2013:orpharion (plucked chordophone (classified as a lute) of bass register with metal strings and a scalloped and festooned body outline, said to have been invented in London in 1562.)