lap. Although played like a harp, in construction it was more similar to a psaltery as the soundbox was positioned behind the strings and filled the entire triangle. The cittole and the gittern are two instruments of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries that are often confused with one another. Both were held across the body and played like a guitar ...
stringed instrument of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It was strung with wire and played not with the right fingers but by using a quill plectrum, rather like the cittole and gittern of the medieval era. The body was flat both back and front, with a pear-shaped face. The fingerboard lay on the front of a short neck ending ...
not interfere with the player’s breathing, they were ideal for singers to use for their own accompaniment. Styles & Forms | Medieval Era | Classical Instruments | Psaltery, Cittole & Gittern | Medieval Era | Classical ...
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