16th century stringed instrument crossword

Khloy ( Khmer: ខ្លុយ) - vertical duct flute made of bamboo, hardwood, or plastic, with buzzing membraneįree-reed A Cambodian musical instrument called a Sneng ស្នែង, made from a cow's horn, sits in front of a water buffalo horn.In the early 1970s, using the guitarra and a 1930s archtop Martin guitar as models, English luthier Stefan Sobell created a 'cittern', a hybrid instrument primarily used for playing folk music, which has proved to be popular with folk revival musicians.Woodwind Various Cambodian woodwind and string musical instruments at the 'Sounds of Angkor' exhibition in Тheam's Gallery, Siem Reap, Cambodia. The guitarra portuguesa is typically used to play the popular traditional music known as fado. The cittern family survives as the Corsican cetara and the Portuguese guitar. The term waldzither came into use around 1900, to distinguish citterns from zithers. There is a tendency in modern German to interchange the words for cittern and zither. Also, the names Thüringer Waldzither in Thüringer Wald, Harzzither in the Harz mountains, Halszither in German-speaking Switzerland are used. The last name comes from the belief that Martin Luther played this instrument. In Germany, the cittern survives under the names Waldzither and Lutherzither. (Left): Portuguese guitar at a music shop, 2010 (right): Hamburger Waldzither The leading 18th-century Swedish songwriter Carl Michael Bellman played mostly on the cittern, and is shown with the instrument (now in the National Museum, Stockholm) in a 1779 portrait by Per Krafft the elder. The instrument maker Johann Wilhelm Bindernagel (around 1770-1845), who worked in Gotha, made a mixed guitar-cittern under the name 'Sister' or 'German Guitar', which was equipped with seven gut strings. Gérard Joseph Deleplanque (1723-1784) was a luthier from Lille who made a wide variety of instruments, including citterns. Just as the lute was enlarged and bass-extended to become the theorbo and chitarrone for continuo work, so the cittern was developed into the ceterone, with its extended neck and unstopped bass strings, though this was a much less common instrument. The top of the pegbox was often decorated with a small carved head, perhaps not always of great artistic merit in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost, the term 'cittern-head' is used as an insult: HOLOFERNES: What is this? BOYET: A cittern-head. The Spanish bandurria, still used today, is a similar instrument.įrom left to right, 1: Stringed instruments in Musical Instrument Museum, Brussels, including two citterns by Gérard Joseph Deleplanque 2: The Sister (Deutsche Guitarre) by Johann Wilhelm Bindernagel.įrom the 16th until the 18th century the cittern was a common English barber shop instrument, kept in waiting areas for customers to entertain themselves and others with, and popular sheet music for the instrument was published to that end. Its bright and cheerful timbre make it a valuable counterpoint to gut-strung instruments. The tuning and narrow range allow the player a number of simple chord shapes useful for both simple song accompaniment and dances, though much more complex music was also written for it. The cittern may have a range of only an octave between its lowest and highest strings and employs a re-entrant tuning – a tuning in which the string that is physically uppermost is not the lowest, as is also the case with the five-string banjo and most ukuleles for example. It generally has four courses of strings (single, pairs or threes depending on design or regional variation), one or more courses being usually tuned in octaves, though instruments with more or fewer courses were made. The cittern is one of the few metal-strung instruments known from the Renaissance period. Froude playing an English guitar or cittern, 1762 1865 3: Painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds of Mrs. 1774–89 2: Bell cittern by Joachim Tielke, c. From left to right, 1: Archicitter, Laurent, Louis-Sigismond, c.

16th century stringed instrument crossword