What Is the Gittern Made out of?
The Gittern and the Lute While They May Look Quite Similar, the Gittern and Lute Are Distinguishable in Three Ways: the Backs of Lutes Were Made of Several...
What type of instrument was the medieval gittern?
Gittern, either of two medieval stringed musical instruments, the guitarra latina and the guitarra morisca. The latter was also known as the guitarra saracenica. The guitarra latina, an ancestor of the modern guitar, usually had four strings and was plucked with a plectrum.
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What does a gittern look like?
The gittern was shaped very much like the lute but with a smaller pear-shaped body. Unlike the lute but like the bowed-string rebec, its neck was integral with its body in a single piece of wood. ... Gittern.
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