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Guitar

(Greek, kithara; Latin, cithara; Italian, chitarra; French, guitare. The Greek kithar is the Hindu cha-tar (six-strings).

Guitar. The best players on this instrument have been Guiliaʹni, Sor, Zoechi, Stoll, and Horetzky.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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