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noun - a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings
noun - a pear-shaped guitar
CITOLE - The citole was a string musical instrument, closely associated with the medieval fiddles (viol, vielle, gigue) and commonly used from 12001350. It wa...
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An archaic musical instrument whose exact form is uncertain, generally shown with four strings. |
a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings |
A lute-like medieval stringed instrument, forerunner of the cittern. |
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The citole was a string musical instrument, closely associated with the medieval fiddles (viol, vielle, gigue) and commonly used from 12001350. It was known by other names in various languages: cedra, cetera, cetola, cetula, cistola, citola, citula, citera, chytara, cistole, cithar, cuitole, cythera, cythol, cytiole, cytolys, gytolle, sitole, sytholle, sytole, and zitol. Like the modern guitar, it was manipulated at the neck to get different notes, and picked or strummed with a plectrum (the citole's pick was long, thick, straight and likely made of ivory or wood). Although it was largely out of use by the late 14th century, the Italians "re-introduced it in modified form" in the 16th century as the cetra (cittern in English), and it was possibly ancestral to the guitar as well. It was also a pioneering instrument in England, introducing the populace to necked, plucked instruments, giving people the concepts needed to quickly switch to the newly arriving lutes and gitterns. Two possibl |