gittern

How To Use gittern In A Sentence

• He hath a daughter too, who once sought to mar our trade with her gittern; a daughter, then in a kirtle that I would not have nimmed from a hedge, but whom I last saw in sarcenet and lawn, with The Last of the Barons — Complete
• He put his gittern into the stand by touch and knelt to blow the fire to flame. Oathblood
• There is definite documentary evidence that both the citole and the gittern were normally strung in gut.
• Gwena, the dark girl, flashed dazzling white teeth in a vulpine grin, plucked a gittern from somewhere behind her, and began. Fiddler Fair
• A gittern, most musicologists have come to agree, was the earliest form of what we know today as a guitar.
• In the corner, one youth sat alone, softly strumming a gittern. HERE BE DRAGONS
• By this time most gitterns were depicted with three, or more commonly four, courses of strings, but with a different tuning from that of the lute.
• Other Medieval instruments: lute, mandora, gittern, psaltery, the dulcimers, The hurdy-gurdy (a mechanical violin using a rosined wooden wheel attached to a crank to \ "bow\" its strings). Recently Uploaded Slideshows
• In the corner, one youth sat alone, softly strumming a gittern. HERE BE DRAGONS
• The warmth must have reached him, for as she reached the chorus, he shook himself, and suddenly his harp joined the jaunty chords of her gittern as his voice joined hers in harmony. The Robin And The Kestrel