gitterns
Identification code: 300205494
Hierarchy classification:
- top of the aat hierarchies
- Objects Facet
- Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
- Sound Devices (hierarchy name)
- sound devices (equipment)
- [sound devices by acoustical characteristics]
- chordophones
- lutelike chordophones
- lutelike chordophones: plucked
- [lutelike chordophones with short neck: plucked]
Alternative term/s
- gittern
Anotations
Scope note:
Small, short-necked lutelike chordophones of Medieval Europe, either having a rounded body with no clear division between body and neck, or flat-backed with a short but distinct neck.
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