Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . e. On the Guglia Kotta at Rome is a large obelisk,which was brought from Egypt by Augustus andthrown down ami broken at the sacking of the cityby the Constable of Bourbon, in 1527. On it is represented a guitar (h) wliich had evi-dently two strings. The lengtli of the finger-boardwould allow a considerable scale of notes. In the sculptures of Ximroud is represen
Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . e. On the Guglia Kotta at Rome is a large obelisk,which was brought from Egypt by Augustus andthrown down ami broken at the sacking of the cityby the Constable of Bourbon, in 1527. On it is represented a guitar (h) wliich had evi-dently two strings. The lengtli of the finger-boardwould allow a considerable scale of notes. In the sculptures of Ximroud is represented playing on a guitar. The present name is derived intermediately from GUITAR. 1031 GULLET-SAW. the ancient Greek, where it indicated a musical in-stranient resembling a harp (cilliuni). The Europeans, ancient and modern, derived itfrom Egypt. Like some other things, it was im-ported directly into Greece from Egypt in ancienttimes; and again through the intervention of theSaracens into Europe, after the lull of the dax-kages ; following the track through Spain. The modern Arabs have au iustnmient called theood (c. Fig. 2331)), which may be considered theSyrian guitar. The head is bent over as in the Euro- Fig. 2336. j E, A, D, G, B, E, and are stretched between a liarattached to the sounding-board and the pegs, whichare journaled in the /uiad. I An English guitar lias been constnictcd to be j touched by keys, and one of a large size has been ! made in Germany, and is adajited to be lield with : the bow between the knees. Neither have proved valuable accessions to the list of iiuisical instruments. Guitar-banjo. An instrument combiuing the characteristics ol the guitar and the banjo, having the strings and fretted neck of the former, and the sheepskin head and metallic hoop of the latter. Gullet. 1. i^Clril Eiujiiiccriinj.) A narrow work-ing cutting made in the formation of an excavation,and used as a means of laying down a pair of railsto bring the dirt-cars to the
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