What's the difference between cittern and gittern?

Cittern


Definition:

  • (n.) An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As she said, that wasn’t to recreate prim antiquity, Roman or Tudor: the lutes, citterns , fiddles, and droning pipes of the standard Globe ensemble are tavern instruments anyway – music for a pub knees-up – and the North African imports are only a bit wilder.

Gittern


Definition:

  • (n.) An instrument like a guitar.
  • (v. i.) To play on gittern.

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