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Meaning of "cittern"
Cittern is a stringed musical instrument of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, similar to a lute but larger
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- A stringed instrument (chordophone), played with a plectrum (a pick), and most commonly possessing four wire strings and chromatic frets.
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There are other tunings for the cittern.
It belongs to the cittern family of instruments.
The musician on the left is playing a cittern.
The cittern or cithren is a stringed instrument dating from the Renaissance.
They also work on the modern cittern.
The Cithrinchen or Bell cittern was a distinctively shaped instrument of the renaissance and baroque periods.
Comparisons to gittern and cittern.
The cittern family survives as the Corsican cetara and the Portuguese guitar.
He is also credited with the invention of the bass cittern.
The instrument, a cittern with four strings, is being played by a bear.
Definitions of cittern.
The Cittern " More than you need to know about the cittern . ".
The painting shows a servant maid handing a letter to a young woman with a cittern.
There is a tendency in modern German to interchange the words for cittern and zither.
His first known book was the Cittarn Schoole of 1597, consisting of compositions for the cittern.
See also
John McCusker, violin and cittern.
Jani KIVELÄ, acoustic and electric guitar, cittern.
