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Definition of gittern in English: gitternnoun ˈɡɪtəːnˈɡɪdərn historical A lute-like medieval stringed instrument, forerunner of the guitar. Example sentencesExamples - There is definite documentary evidence that both the citole and the gittern were normally strung in gut.
- 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.
- A gittern, most musicologists have come to agree, was the earliest form of what we know today as a guitar.
- For additional information about gitterns, visit the Gittern section of the Early String Instruments page.
- However, gitterns more frequently had frets, flat fingerboards, and flat bridges.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French guiterne; perhaps related to cittern and guitar. Definition of gittern in US English: gitternnounˈɡidərnˈɡɪdərn historical A lute-like medieval stringed instrument, forerunner of the guitar. Example sentencesExamples - A gittern, most musicologists have come to agree, was the earliest form of what we know today as a guitar.
- 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.
- However, gitterns more frequently had frets, flat fingerboards, and flat bridges.
- For additional information about gitterns, visit the Gittern section of the Early String Instruments page.
- There is definite documentary evidence that both the citole and the gittern were normally strung in gut.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French guiterne; perhaps related to cittern and guitar. |