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Musical Instruments in WoT


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Hey I am re-reading the series again for the third time trying to get ready for the upcoming releases and I find myself absorbing alot more interesting little side details this time through. Being a musicina I have always loved the emphasis Jordan placed on the characters musical pursuits and the recurring ideas of folk songs by different names and different tunes etc. But anywasy I noticed today in chapter twelve of the Fires of Heaven in the second page he remarks about an instrument called the 12 string bittern. Coincedentally enough I play pretty much exclusively 12 stering acoustic guitar so my interest was piqued. However upon searching wikipedia and google and whatnot, I cannot find any mention of this instrument or pictures or anything. Does anyone know if this is a real existing folk or cultural instrument or something Jordan created?

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Hard to even guess without more description than the number of strings. Itend to picture it as something similar to an oud, or a lute, though the number of strings does not quite match.

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Guest gleeman58
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From the context, it could be like a real world cittern.  That was a wire strung instrument popular in the renaissance, with a varying number of strings, in pairs, usually tuned in octaves, similar to a large flat backed mandolin. A bittern in the real world is a water bird, related to herons.

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I also am in my third time through the series; am at Knife of Dreams (towards the end of the book).

before reading this thread, I remembered 2 instruments; flute, harp.

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