Editing Cittern (section)

=== Modern citterns ===
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In Germany, the cittern survives under the names ''[[Waldzither]]'' and ''Lutherzither''. The last name comes from the belief that [[Martin Luther]] played this instrument. Also, the names ''Thüringer Waldzither'' in Thüringer Wald, ''Harzzither'' in the Harz mountains, ''[[Halszither]]'' in German-speaking Switzerland are used.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.atlasofpluckedinstruments.com/cittern.htm |title=cittern |publisher=ATLAS of Plucked Instruments |access-date=2013-07-15}}</ref> There is a tendency in modern [[German language|German]] to interchange the words for cittern and [[zither]]. The term [[waldzither]] came into use around 1900, to distinguish citterns from zithers.

The cittern family survives as the Corsican [[cetara]] and the [[Portuguese guitar]]. The ''guitarra portuguesa'' is typically used to play the popular traditional music known as [[fado]]. In the early 1970s, using the guitarra and a 1930s archtop Martin guitar as models, English luthier Stefan Sobell created a "cittern", a hybrid instrument primarily used for playing folk music, which has proved to be popular with folk revival musicians.<ref>{{cite book|title=American Lutherie: The Quarterly Journal of the Guild of American Luthiers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qxw9AQAAIAAJ|year=2006|publisher=The Guild|page=9}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Frets|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8E_aAAAAMAAJ|year=1980|publisher=GPI Publications}}</ref>