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Cithern
Cithern Cith"ern, n. See Cittern.
cithern
Cittern Cit"tern, n. [L. cithara, Gr. ?. Cf. Cithara, Gittern.] (Mus.) An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum. [Written also cithern.] --Shak. Note: Not to be confounded with zither.

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- The cittern or cithren (Fr. cistre, It. cetra, Ger. Cister, Sp. cistro, cedra, cítola) is a stringed instrument dating from the Renaissance. Modern scholars...
- was an Irish luthier who introduced a type of bowed psaltery known as the cither viol or sultana. He is regarded as one of Ireland's most influential violin...
- classics. van Gulik, R.H. (1951). "Brief Note on the Cheng, the Chinese Small Cither". Toyo Ongaku Kenkyu: The Journal of the Society for the Research of Asiatic...
- inhumanity, especially when they involve irregulars, but this is rarely cither premeditated or systemic. The German campaign in the Soviet Union was both...
- grammar, glamor, grimoire; δίσκος discus: disc, dish, dais, and desk; κιθάρα cither: guitar, zither, gittern, cittern, etc.; κρύπτη crypt: grotto, (under)croft;...
- Sciagraphia is an illustration (plate 7) of a Dominici Zwölff Chörichte Cither (Dominici twelve course cittern), with re-entrant b**** string tunings of...
- sense, showing that they must be esteemed to have lost their sense, who cither pursuing abundance, or fearing lack of temporal goods, lose those which...
- both named Thitis of whom one of them distinguished as "best known for her cither". The sisters receive the dying Arthur from Taliesin, delivered to them...
- Hörlén — keyboards David Wilczewskisaxophone L****e Andersson – guitars, cither Per Hammarström – violin Ronnie Sjökvist – violin Anna Harjuviola Kerstin...
- ages. The "Zhetigen" ("Seven strings") could be seen as a member of the cither family, finding equivalents in China, with the strings being divided each...