Definition of Citterns. Meaning of Citterns. Synonyms of Citterns

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Definition of Citterns

Cittern
Cittern Cit"tern, n. [L. cithara, Gr. ?. Cf. Cithara, Gittern.] (Mus.) An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum. [Written also cithern.] --Shak. Note: Not to be confounded with zither.

Meaning of Citterns from wikipedia

- Renaissance bis zum Historismus Cittern Press (publisher of printed tune books for the modern cittern) Citterns and cittern research at the Musikinstrumenten-Museum...
- The Cithrinchen or Bell cittern was a distinctively shaped instrument of the renaissance and baroque periods. It was usually strung with doubled courses...
- court circles. Later it became po****r and references have been found to citterns being pla**** in the theater, in taverns and barbershops in the seventeenth...
- Woods.[citation needed] Woods is most ****ociated with the mandolin and cittern, but also plays acoustic and electric guitars, mandola, five-string banjo...
- steroids". Guild of American Luthiers. Spring 2006. p. 8. Sobell, Stefan. "Citterns and octave mandolins". Stefan Sobell Guitars (Sobellguitars.com). Retrieved...
- festivals in great numbers with harps, fiddles, bagpipes, flutes, flageolets, citterns and kettledrums. Additionally, minstrels were known for their involvement...
- come in different tunings, which are generally open tunings as usual in citterns. The most Common Tuning for the Waldzither is Open C (C3, G3, C4, E4, G4)...
- string-instrument that can be regarded as a b**** cittern though it does not have the re-entrant tuning typical of the cittern. Probably first built by John Rose in...
- to the guitar, as guitarra meant the "Portuguese guitar", a variety of cittern. There were many different plucked instruments that were being invented...
- instruments Citole chordophones 3 Western Europe stringed instruments Cittern chordophones 321.322 England, Scotland, Switzerland stringed instruments...