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Gittern

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ghitternnoun	Alternative spelling of gittern. [A small, quill-plucked, gut-strung musical instrument, most commonly with three to four strings in doubles courses; it is a flat-backed predecessor of the guitar, and it originated around the 13th century, coming to Europe via Moorish Spain.]
guitarnoun	(music) A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).
guittarnoun	Dated form of guitar. [(music) A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).]
gittarnoun	Eye dialect spelling of guitar. [(music) A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).]
guitarronnoun	Alternative spelling of guitarrón. [(music) Any of several stringed instruments of Latin American origin.]
contraguitarnoun	(music, historical) An old form of guitar originating in Vienna, with a standard six-string neck and a second bass neck with up to nine strings.
glockenspielnoun	(music) A musical instrument of the percussion idiophone family of instruments. Like the xylophone, it has tuned bars arranged like the keys on a piano. It is smaller in size and higher in pitch than the xylophone, and the bars are made of metal instead of wood.
classical guitarnoun	A type of flat-tabled guitar of Spanish origin used primarily for Western classical music, flamenco, and Latin American music, with six nylon (formerly gut) strings, usually played with the fingers rather than with a plectrum.
g-stringnoun	A scanty covering for the genitalia, with a thin strip of fabric that passes between the buttocks.
lute guitarnoun	(music) A stringed instrument that combines a normal guitar six-string layout over a lute-like bowl-shaped body, originating in German folk traditions.
baroque guitarnoun	An archaic form of guitar with five strings, originating in the Baroque era, played by either strumming or plucking, and characterized by the use of reentrant tuning.
lute-guitarnoun	Alternative form of lute guitar. [(music) A stringed instrument that combines a normal guitar six-string layout over a lute-like bowl-shaped body, originating in German folk traditions.]
steel-string guitarnoun	(music) A type of acoustic guitar designed to be strung with metal strings.
guslenoun	(music) A single-stringed lute-like musical instrument with a bowl-shaped body, held vertically in the lap and played with a bow, originating among the Slavic peoples in the Balkans, especially in the Dinarides region.
guslinoun	(music) A plucked psaltery-like string instrument, usually played on the lap and sometimes created with table legs so that the musician can play it seated next to the instrument, originating in ancient Russian music.
gambanoun	(Twitch-speak) Gambling.
guzlanoun	Alternative spelling of gusle. [(music) A single-stringed lute-like musical instrument with a bowl-shaped body, held vertically in the lap and played with a bow, originating among the Slavic peoples in the Balkans, especially in the Dinarides region.]
gu zhengnoun	Alternative spelling of guzheng. [A zither-like stringed instrument with at least eighteen strings and moveable bridges, played with a plectrum, originating in the traditional music of China.]
guslanoun	Alternative spelling of gusle. [(music) A single-stringed lute-like musical instrument with a bowl-shaped body, held vertically in the lap and played with a bow, originating among the Slavic peoples in the Balkans, especially in the Dinarides region.]
gudulkanoun	Alternative spelling of gadulka. [(music) A traditional Bulgarian stringed instrument, played with a bow, and most commonly featuring three main strings and up to sixteen sympathetic strings.]