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 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.