Gue: Iceland musical instrument
The gue is a defunct kind of two-stringed bowed lyre or zither from the Shetland Isles. Now defunct, the musical instrument was alive as r...
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The gue is a defunct kind of
two-stringed bowed lyre or zither from the Shetland Isles. Now defunct, the
musical instrument was alive as recently as the 1809 and was described in the
writings of Sir Arthur Edmondstone.
The particular detail of the musical
instrument are not clear, but it is possible analogous to the defunct lyre like
the Norwegian giga, or extant Swedish and Estonian talharpa or the Finnish
jouhikko. Meanwhile, other ethnomusicologists believe that the musical
instrument more resembled the fidla of the Iceland, a two stringed bowed
zither. Peter Cooke notes the occurrence of the tautirut bowed zither among the
Inuit culture in the areas of Canada, influence by the Orkney and Shetland
sailors, as probably witness that the Inuit bowed zither is based on a Shetland
model.
