How To Use Gittern In A Sentence
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For additional information about gitterns, visit the Gittern section of the Early String Instruments page.
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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
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Stefen stood up and slung his gittern case over one shoulder before replying.
Magic's Price
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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
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However, gitterns more frequently had frets, flat fingerboards, and flat bridges.
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Both the late medieval gittern and the early guitar were sometimes called mandoras.
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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
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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
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There is definite documentary evidence that both the citole and the gittern were normally strung in gut.
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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
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The bard played a soft melody on his gittern as Lord Kemoc seemed to doze, the golden firelight flickering over both of them.
Oathblood
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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
The Last of the Barons — Complete
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The warmth must have reached him, for as she reached the chorus, he shook himself, and suddenly his harp joined the jaunty chords of her gittern as his voice joined hers in harmony.
The Robin And The Kestrel
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In the corner, one youth sat alone, softly strumming a gittern.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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Other Medieval instruments: lute, mandora, gittern, psaltery, the dulcimers, The hurdy-gurdy (a mechanical violin using a rosined wooden wheel attached to a crank to \ "bow\" its strings).
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By this time most gitterns were depicted with three, or more commonly four, courses of strings, but with a different tuning from that of the lute.
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In the corner, one youth sat alone, softly strumming a gittern.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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A gittern, most musicologists have come to agree, was the earliest form of what we know today as a guitar.
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Gwena, the dark girl, flashed dazzling white teeth in a vulpine grin, plucked a gittern from somewhere behind her, and began.
Fiddler Fair
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There is definite documentary evidence that both the citole and the gittern were normally strung in gut.
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He put his gittern into the stand by touch and knelt to blow the fire to flame.
Oathblood
