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UK
/ɡˈɪtən/
]
NOUN
- a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings
How To Use gittern In A Sentence
- For additional information about gitterns, visit the Gittern section of the Early String Instruments page.
- She'd been pierced with the sharp ends of nails and wire so often that her finger-ends looked like pincushions, and it was just as well that they were not going to be playing their instruments for a while, for her fingers needed to heal before she picked up her gittern or harp again. The Robin And The Kestrel
- Stefen stood up and slung his gittern case over one shoulder before replying. Magic's Price
- He hath a daughter too, who once sought to mar our trade with her gittern; a daughter, then in a kirtle that I would not have nimmed from a hedge, but whom I last saw in sarcenet and lawn, with a great lord for her fere. The Last of the Barons — Volume 09
- However, gitterns more frequently had frets, flat fingerboards, and flat bridges.
- Both the late medieval gittern and the early guitar were sometimes called mandoras.
- Lauren held his peace, flattening his palm over the strings of his gittern so that not even a breath of draft would set them murmuring. Oathblood
- The musical group consisted of the tervardi, two hertasi playing drums, and four Tayledras who played harp, gittern, flute, and some sort of horn, respectively. Owlsight
- There is definite documentary evidence that both the citole and the gittern were normally strung in gut.
- It might at one time have been a lute or a gittern or some such thing; there was no trace at all of its original finish, nor its strings or tuning pegs, and it had probably not been playable for centuries. Storm Breaking