Before I finish, let me just say I'm surprised there hasn't been any
further revival of the English guitar when compared to, for example, the
lute, as its a wonderful and unique instrument that never quite reached
what it could and unfortunately died before its time.
Best regards
Sorry for bringing up this topic again, but after reading all the
comments, I couldn't resist dropping my own, even if mostly useless,
testimony ;-)
I observed that some people misinterpreted Cabral's comments as
portraying the complete dismissal of the influence of the English guitar
on its
On Dec 5, 2006, at 9:46 PM, Pedro Silva wrote:
Before I finish, let me just say I'm surprised there hasn't been any
further revival of the English guitar when compared to, for
example, the
lute, as its a wonderful and unique instrument that never quite
reached
what it could and
I had a look at my copy of Galpin's Old English Instruments of Music
(1932) while unpacking, and he calls the EC a type of cittern. If
you have a look at Plate VIII, you'll see a cittern by Peter Wisser
dated c.1700 that clearly shows a uniformly deep body on a four-
course instrument.
Pedro Caldeira Cabral sent me this reply to my wild Portuguese guitar
theories and asked me to forward it to the list.
Frank
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Pedro Caldeira Cabral wrote:
Some clariffying remarks:
The word VIOLA in portuguese only appeared in the late 19th and was
applied to a precise instrument: a
Martina Rosenberger wrote:
What you have read between the lines, could mean, that the portuguese
'Guitar' could be the godfather of the English 'Guitar'.
Yes, although could is of course an essential word here.
I'd love to learn a bit more about the sources Cabrals quote. Very much
of this
Frank Nordberg wrote:
? Guitarra was originally the Iberian name for the gittern or some other
cittern-like instrument.
Frank, I think it is all one single root possibly confusing two
Indo-European compound words, each meaning 'so many strings'. kythera,
cythera, zither, cistre, cetra,
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Subject: [CITTERN] Re: Early 18th C. Portuguese guitar (was: Pedro Cabrals
answer)
Take into account multiple
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
