Gittern - Wikipedia The gittern was a relatively small gut-strung, round-backed instrument that first appeared in literature and pictorial representation during the 13th century in Western Europe (Iberian Peninsula, Italy, France, England)
Gittern | Medieval, Lute-like, Fretted | Britannica 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
Gittern (Medieval) – Early Music Instrument Database Gittern (Medieval) 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
The gittern: a short history - Early Music Muse The 14th century French poet, Eustache Deschamps, gives evidence of the gittern’s rise in popularity, writing that “at royal courts everyone wants to play the trumpet, gittern, and rebebe ” (The rebebe was a bowed instrument – more information here under the heading, Origins: the rebab?)
Gitterns | Gittern Maker | Gittern Builder - George Stevens A gittern was the first instrument I ever built when I started learning luthiery in 1989 I based my original designs on the only known surviving example of the instrument, a five course gittern made by Hans Ott in Nuremberg c 1450, a period in which I would suggest the use of gitterns was in decline (incredibly for such an early period, it has
Gittern Medieval Instruments: A Historical Guide - Knights Templar The gittern, a type of medieval stringed instrument, holds a unique place in the realm of historical musical instruments Known for its distinctive characteristics and construction, the gittern differed from other instruments of the medieval period in various aspects
gittern - Wiktionary, the free dictionary gittern (plural gitterns) A small, quill - plucked, gut - strung musical instrument, most commonly with three to four strings in doubles courses; it is a flat-backed predecessor of the guitar, and it originated around the 13th century, coming to Europe via Moorish Spain
The Gittern and Citole - Diabolus So the early guitar was called a gittern in the early sixteenth century By the eighteenth, the gittern was a form of English guitar, which wasn't a guitar, but a form of cittern
Gittern | Musical Life of the Late Middle Ages in the Austrian Region The gittern is sometimes called the “little sister” of the lute and in iconography is often found in ensemble combinations with its bigger sister It came together with the lute from Arabic origins and can already be seen paired with the lute in the earliest depictions from 12th-century Sicily