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The cittern or cither is a stringed instrument of the guitar family dating from the Renaissance. Its name derives ultimately from the Iranian se - tar or "three strings" ( see setar ). Its fla...
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Renovata Cythara - The Renaissance Cittern Page. An online resource dedicated to the Renaissance Cittern, with information on its history, articles, art, music, recordings, players, composers, and builders. ... Cittern Picture Galleries:
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Meaning of the term Cittern: ... I think that Cittern is used by Sobell to describe a family of instruments with 10 strings. The size and scale length is a matter of emphasis- it is hard to play lead on complicated tunes on a Bouzouki-length cittern, but easier on a Mandola-length one.
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Mandolin Player: The instruments: The Irish cittern ... The modern "Irish" cittern seems to have evolved from the bouzouki and isn't directly related to the ancient instrument. There's a lot of confusion about what names to use for all those large mandolins used in Irish music.
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The instruments of the cittern type look like relatives of the mandolins. Both also have steel strings. However historically they developed separately. ... For more information about the complicated cittern and mandolin families see : Musicaviva.com.
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Johnny Elias plays Northern Jig by John Loughran, arrangement from Liz Carroll/John Doyle's album "In Play"
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CITTERN (also Cithern, Cithron, Cythren, Citharen, &C.; Fr. titre, cistre, cithre, guitare allemande or anglaise; Ger. Cither, Zither (mit Hals, with neck); Ital. cetera, tetra), a medieval stringed instrument with a neck terminating in a grotesque and twanged by fingers or plectrum.
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Cittern Music in the Sixteenth Century ... Works for the Cittern ... The cittern was strung with wire strings instead of gut and, unlike the other instruments discussed here, usually played with a plectrum. Many sixteenth-century citterns lacked a complete set of frets for each chromatic pitch;
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The cittern (pronounced 'sit-urn') is a flat-backed instrument, developed in Italy around 1500 and was the first to be made with steel wire strings and solid brass frets set into the fingerboard.
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