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▪ I. gusle|ˈgʊslə|
Also gusla, gustlé, guszla, guzla.
[Serbian.]
A bowed stringed musical instrument found in the Balkans, usually having only a single string, and used chiefly to accompany and support the chanting of the epic poems of the southern Slavs.
1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey I. 265 The national instrument..is the guzla... In shape it is like an elongated pear cut in half, and it is something between a guitar and a violin. 1874C. Engel Descr. Catal. Mus. Instr. S. Kensington Museum 204 This species of violin somewhat resembles the guszla which has been in use by most of the Slavonic tribes in Europe from an early period. 1880Grove's Dict. Mus. I. 642 Guzla, a kind of rebab, a bow instrument with one string only, used in Illyria. 1922D. H. Low Ballads Marko Kraljević p. xxxvi, He then makes ready his gusle which in shape bears a rough resemblance to a mandolin. 1930Contemp. Rev. Feb. 225 The gustlé player is the Serbian equivalent of the Saxon harpist. 1941‘R. West’ Black Lamb (1942) I. 313 A male gipsy who sang and played the gusla. 1969Observer 26 Jan. 32/5 This was the residence of Petar Petrovic Njegos II.., prince, crack shot, player of the gusle (the Montenegrin lute) and author.
So ˈguslar (pl. guslari), one who plays the gusle; a singer of traditional epic poems.
1891E. S. Hartland Sci. Fairy Tales i. 16 A viol having only one string accompanies the passages in verse..; and a similar instrument seems to be used..among the orthodox Guslars of Bosnia and Herzegovina. 1908Daily Chron. 29 July 4/4 A blind guslar, playing the gusla. 1922D. H. Low Ballads Marko Kraljević p. xix, If the Turkish dominion had endured a century or two longer, the separate ballads of the Kossovo cycle chanted by the Serbian guslari, would have fused together. Ibid., The bard or guslar is often blind. 1923Glasgow Herald 13 June 7 The wandering minstrels or guslari. 1930Harvard Stud. Class. Philol. XLI. 79 There is too little known about the making of the early poetry in hexameters for us to liken the Singers to the Serbian Guslars without more ado, or to make of Homer a Singer like any other.
▪ II. gusle
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