- The
cittern or
cithren (Fr. cistre, It. cetra, Ger. Cister, Sp. cistro, cedra, cítola) is a
stringed instrument dating from the Renaissance.
Modern scholars...
- well-accepted,
planetary pegs can make
string changes more time-consuming.
Cittern maker John
Preston is
often credited with a linear-pull
tuning machine...
- or
watchkey tuners) is a type of
machine head tuning system for
string instruments,
named for
English cittern (English guitar)
maker John
Preston and developed...
-
Kilbride and
McMenemy shortly afterward brought in Jen
Clark (vocals,
cittern, dulcimer) and
Duncan MacGillivray (Highland pipes) for
Stand Easy (1979)...
-
upright and
electric b****, banjo, mandolin, dobro, hardingfele, bouzouki,
cittern, bağlama, gumbus, charango, cümbüş, oud and zither. He was
described as...
- fragments) all had ten
strings in five courses. The
English guitar is a type of
cittern that was
particularly po****r in
Europe from
around 1750 to 1850. The English...
- b****,
vocals (1986–1996, 2001–2014; died 2022)
Terry Woods – mandolin,
cittern, concertina, guitar,
vocals (1986–1993, 2001–2014) Cait O'Riordan – b****...
- shorter-scaled
Irish bouzouki as a
cittern,
irrespective of
whether it has four or five courses.
Other relatives of the
cittern,
which might also be loosely...
-
early in the 19th
century in Russia,
possibly as a
development of the
cittern, the
kobza and the torban. It is
known in
Russia as the
semistrunnaya gitara...
- Waldzither,
Portuguese guitar and the
Corsican Cetera, all
types of
cittern. The
cittern or
cithren (Fr. cistre, It. cetra, Ger. zitter, zither, Sp. cistro...
