gitterns in a sentence

Examples

1. Lewin is a vocalist and plays fiddle, vielle, rebec, gittern, shawms, recorder, mandolin, pipe and tabor.
2. Like the earlier gittern, the mandore's back and neck were in earlier forms carved out of a block of wood.
3. It was considered a new instrument in French music books from the 1580s, but is descended from and very similar to the gittern.
4. During the late Middle Ages, gitterns called " guitars " were in use, but their construction and tuning was different from modern guitars.
5. The gittern's sound hole was covered with a rosette ( a delicate wood carving or parchment cutting ), similar to the lute.
6. In contrast, players of lute family instruments, such as the gittern, mandore, or lute did not hold the instrument this way.
7. Around 1200 A . D ., European writers started to mention instruments with names like gitere, chitarra, guitarra latina, quinterne and gittern.
8. From the early 16th century, a vihuela shaped ( flat-backed ) guitarra began to appear in Spain-then France, existing alongside the gittern.
9. French theologian Jean Gerson compared the four cardinal virtues to " " la guiterne de quatre cordes " " ( the gittern of four strings ).
10. Although there is not much direct information concerning gittern tuning, the later versions were quite possibly tuned in fourths and fifths like the mandore a few decades later.