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cittern
Cooper sings and plays his own arrangements of traditional songs and tunes on six string guitar and cittern.
From the dailyherald.com
Traditional instruments included alphorn, hammered dulcimer, fife, hurdy-gurdy, rebec, bagpipe, cittern and shawm.
From the en.wikipedia.org
He plays everything from lutes, banjos, guitar and harp-guitar to mandolin, cittern and the uillean pipes, a small Irish bagpipe.
From the washingtontimes.com
Bullock will present Christmas carols and hymns spanning over 600 years, with selections for guitar, cittern, mandolin and piano.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Otto played cittern, a plucked, mandolin-like instrument popular in the Renaissance, and the musical history of the Honeck family was well known.
From the post-gazette.com
They include hurdy-gurdy, bagpipes, Uilleann Pipes, shawm, nyckelharpa, harp, cittern, tromba marina, hammered dulcimer, Klangbaum, and various types of drums and percussion.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The history of the guitar in traditional music is recent, as is that of the cittern and bouzouki, which in the forms used in Scottish and Irish music only date to the late 1960s.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- A 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings
- The cittern or cither is a stringed instrument dating from the Renaissance. Modern scholars debate its exact history, but it is generally accepted that it is descended from the Medieval Citole, or Cytole. ...
- The Cittern is strung with wire, has a flat back and a pear shaped body and comes in many sizes. It was most popular in the Renaissance period and often played solo. It was played by plucking strings with a quill.
