[CITTERN] Re: Early 18th C. Portuguese guitar (was: Pedro Cabrals answer)

[James A Stimson]

Dear All:
 Aren't all of these words derivations of the Greek "kitara?" Guitar,
guittar, gittern, quintern, cittern, cetra, citole, setula, zither, plus
the Persion zetar, the Indian sitar, and probably many others all seem to
come from one linguistic root. So it's no wonder there's some confusion
about names here.
Cheers,
Jim



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