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	Cittern Information Sheet \| Dusty Strings Acoustic Music Shop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The cittern comes from an ancient family of Western European and British Isles instruments, having in common a teardrop shaped body, wire strings typically grouped in pairs and a flat or slightly curved back.
		The modern instrument is a recent hybrid development of older citterns such as the Portuguese guitarra, and American mandolin family instruments such as the octave mandolin and mandocello.
		A second approach is suggested by historical citterns or by the twelve-string guitar, in which a lighter-gauge string is paired with a heavier to sound the same note an octave apart.
	www.dustystrings.com /shop/cittern_info.shtml (955 words)

	Cittern - LoveToKnow 1911
		The popularity of the cittern was at its height in England and Germany during the 16th and 17th centuries.
		The cittern probably owed its popularity at this time to the ease with which it might be mastered and used to accompany the voice; it was one of four instruments generally found in barbers' shops, the others being the gittern, the lute and the virginals.
		The cittern of the 16th century was the result of certain transitions which took place during the evolution of the violin from the Greek kithara (see Cithara).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Cittern (1513 words)

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