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He ducks under his table, picks up a gittern—or maybe it's a lute, I can never tell the difference—and plucks a few notes.

Mr Galpin places the citole in the same class as the gittern. 

As he resumed his journey, he might have been taken for a gipsy minstrel, for suspended round his neck was a small cracked gittern, retaining only two strings.

"Nay, my lord, rather let me try the gittern," she said.

It was the practice, as we have said, when a customer was waiting for his turn in a barber's shop to pass his time playing on the gittern.