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puhekieltä A stringed instrument (chordophone), played with a plectrum, and most commonly possessing four wire strings and chromatic frets.
1661 January 17, w:Samuel Pepys|Samuel Pepys, s:Diary of Samuel Pepys/1661/January|Diary of Samuel Pepys: January 1661,
- This discourse took us much time, till it was time to go to bed; but we being merry, we bade my Lady goodnight, and intended to have gone to the Post-house to drink, and hear a pretty girl play of the cittern (and indeed we should have lain there, but by a mistake we did not), but it was late, and we could not hear her, and the guard came to examine what we were; so we returned to our Inn and to bed, the page and I in one bed, and the two captains in another, all in one chamber, where we had very good mirth with our most abominable lodging.
1911, s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Cittern|Cittern, article in w:Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition|Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition,
- The cittern consisted of a pear-shaped body similar to that of the lute but with a flat back and sound-board joined by ribs. The neck was provided with a fretted fingerboard; the head was curved and surmounted by a grotesque head of a woman or of an animal.
1911, s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Guitar|Guitar, article in w:Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition|Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition,
- The advent of the Spanish guitar in England led to the wane in the popularity of the cittern, also known at that time in contradistinction as the English or wire-strung guitar, although the two instruments differed in many particulars.
2000, Musical Instruments Museum, Visitors Guide'', http://books.google.com/books?id=BTiLjOOkmpIC&pg=PA93&dq=%22citterns%22&hl=en&ei=H3BnTry-OenJmAXW9o3RDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBTgKv=onepage&q=%22citterns%22&f=false page 93,
- Antwerp was world-famous for its harpsichords, but it was also a centre, in the 16th century, where citterns, lutes, viols and later violins were constructed with skill.
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