cittern in English

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a stringed instrument similar to a lute, with a flattened back and wire strings, used in 16th- and 17th-century Europe.
Viols, rebecs, citterns , lutes, and wooden flutes help.
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1. What does Citterns mean? Plural form of cittern

2. The Bandora or bandore is a large long-necked plucked string-instrument that can be regarded as a bass cittern though it does not have the re-entrant tuning typical of the cittern

3. The bandora or Bandore is a large long-necked plucked string-instrument that can be regarded as a bass cittern though it does not have the re-entrant tuning typical of the cittern

4. It included 53 compositions, the first 47 for four-course cittern (tuned e' d' g b), pieces 48 to 53 for fourteen-course cittern (tuned e' d' g bb f d G F E D C BBb AA GG).

5. Citterns (4) The Cittern used by today's folk-bands has its ancestors in the renaissance Citterns and the English Guitar, but it is now more closely related to the flat-back Bouzouki - the main difference being that the Cittern has 10 strings in 5 courses, a slightly shorter neck …

6. Citterns Fretted and Stringed > Citterns The Cittern used by today's folk-bands has its ancestors in the renaissance Citterns and the English Guitar, but it is now more closely related to the flat-back Bouzouki - the main difference being that the Cittern has 10 strings in 5 courses, a slightly shorter neck and often a rather larger body.

7. By the way, the music at this event was played by a man with a cittern, who not only performed with virtuosity, but also with a sense of humour.

8. The Cittern used by today's folk-bands has its ancestors in the renaissance Citterns and the English Guitar, but it is now more closely related to the flat-back Bouzouki

9. New and secondhand Cittern Shop. Citterns, browse our Citterns range at Hobgoblin Music, online or in our UK shops in London, Leeds, Brighton, Birmingham, Bristol, Southampton, Canterbury and Manchester JavaScript seems to …

10. ‘One of the commonest consorts in the Elizabethan period was the combination of treble viol or violin, flute or recorder, bass viol, lute, cittern, and Bandora, for which Morley wrote his Consort Lessons in …

11. The 17th- and 18th-century Citterns The modern cittern has established a firm place in contemporary Scottish music, but it has been around in various guises for centuries, while making a unique and wonderful contribution to the Scottish musical soundscape

12. Gerald Trimble's famous cittern is a Bouzouki-length model. There is a way to tell older Sobell Citterns on sight- the "hoop" at the bottom that holds the strings on will be almost a full circle on long-scale (Bouzouki length) ones because guitar strings will just barely