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Cithern

noun
1.
A 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings.  Synonyms: cither, citole, cittern, gittern.






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"Cithern" Quotes from Famous Books



... The stringed instrument, the cithern, was preferred by the Greeks to all wind instruments because it was not exciting, and allowed the accompaniment of recitation or song, i.e. the contemporaneous activity of the spirit in poetry. Flute-playing ...
— Pedagogics as a System • Karl Rosenkranz



Words linked to "Cithern" :   cither, guitar



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