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The English word guitar, the German Gitarre, and the French guitare were adopted from the Spanish guitarra, which comes from the Andalusian Arabic قيثارة qitara,

The modern word guitar, and its antecedents, have been applied to a wide variety of cordophones since ancient times and as such is the cause of confusion.

For this reason, modern western chordophones, like the guitar, the violin, the lute and others, are distantly related to the modern instruments of Central Asia and India, including the tanbur, the set ...

Modern chordophones are the descendants of long lines of instruments that go back several thousand years to those of ancient Central Asia and India.

The term is used to refer to a number of instruments that were developed and used across Europe, beginning in the 12th century and, later, in the Americas