GUI 
neareft to the fret poffible, but never per the fret. No 
finger muft be near the nut mar caufe the tone of 
_ the open flring begins oe and i it is by te: open itrings that 
“the inftrument is tune 
In the pro age se the oétave, by half-notes, no flats 
* appear in the ic Fy fharps only being marked to avoid 
confufion 5 but ee fharps would be flats in other keys: 
beginning, for cereln at Bb, and mounting by half-notes, 
no gl Ry ould be wanted. 
the form of the letters ufed as reprefentatives. of 
abhee: TY are Gothic, particularly 6 and [; and the long 
‘letters lean a little to prevent ‘their mixing with each other. 
This notation is as ancient, and the fame as that of the 
‘lute, 2 or "309 years ago. See Mace. See Plates VII. 
and IX. on Mujic. 
This shite is fuperior in tone, expreffi ue bape power, to 
the common guitar flrung with wire. About 45 years ago, 
foon after the confpiracy at Lifbon, of Malagrida and = 
a Portuguefe gentleman, or mufician, ous the appearan 
of a gentleman, of the name of Menefis, probably tolved 
in int lot, refided fome time in London, feemingly as a 
man of fafhion, who performed in a very fuperior eee 
on the large ae guitar ftrung with cat-gut or bowel- 
rings. o great a matter of the initr ument, and fo 
able a saad: that he played voluntaries upon it in the 
fame full and learned manner of a great performer on the 
organ; led off fubjects, purfued them in three and four parts 
with icience fancy through all the keys of legal modu- 
lation ; w movements, his tafte and expreflion were 
; aoe admirable with the learned and mafterly effufions of 
mired is ibe a traditional. account, for we were fo fortu- 
nate ourfelves; as to hear him perform at lord Eglington’s 
with lord Kelley, Bach, and Abel, all good judges and 
fevere critics, 
’*- "The common guitar mate rs En 
fits of favour ‘in tae Bin cou 
vo 
it has frequently had 
uctions for ie thie of their price, 
$ ata 
oe lla em for guitars; till old Kirkman, t 
harpfichord maker, after almoft ruining himfelf with bu ing 
in his initruments, for better times, purchafed likewife 
c ars and made a prefent of feveral to girls in mil 
fin ‘ops, and to ballad fingers, in the ftreets, whom he 
had to evra ee with a few chords and 
ging 
The 
8, to ae it was ae 
“% tis, however, the | Either 
that it as =e as mee har ither 
ough eh pn fens 
lwith he a tender 
bie sch 
chacchay character ; w 
Short, "the Bleict of the beaut in Spain, sian tie 
inhabitants are moft alert and a¢tive, ie moit wares ign to its 
‘GUL 
mild and dulcet harmony, we know fot ; but it is eftablithed 
there as a national inftrument. It has fat the fame fuceefs 
warm climates; it 
is fo portable, and graceful of carriage, that ferenader 
noéturnal revellers, and day-br a lovers, prefer it’ to al 
other tuneful interpreters go Pp 
e Portuguefe having loft a battle, athe guitars. were 
ound on the field of battle. Menagiana 
he tone of this inftrument is fo foft. — glenn: that 
the moft profound filence is ead for its refinements and 
delicacy to be enjoyed. Only the coarfer Par t of the in- 
ftrument can be heard through the leaft noife. 
t is made to be heard alone, or with a voice. It is unfit 
or a concert, and has therefore given way to the 
an ther bos as thefe have fince fn to more seat 
—— 
time ; and Wi 
Geo, a ae a town of France, in the 
Pde of we "ones and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftri@ of ne ee ; Fn oe miles N. of Libourne. 
e place contains 933» a d the canton 10,169 inhabitants, 
ona ens of 2024 hi tageee | in 13 communes, 
GUITTONE DA REZZO, FRA, in Biography, an gird 
poet of the erent century, was a native of the. 
whence he is name. He was a brother of the ad 
tary order of rhe Virgi 
2 2 Rome Forty of his letters were pape by Bottari, at 
ome, in 1745. He died in the year 1299. 
GUJURAT, or GUJERAT, in _Coaraly , a town of 
Hindoottan, in Lo foubah of Lahore es N. of La- 
hore. N. lat. 37’. E. long: Ya. 
GUIZARRA, a town of Africa, in — 20 miles 
E. of Augela. 
LA, in Anatomy, 
duit by which ee 
ULE Vagin 
Gua, in sdriliiaties Ms neck ‘of the capital of a co- 
1 alfo mem 
the cefophagus or gullet ; that cone 
= i ate into the ftomac 
UMN 5 3 ber called cymatium or 0 
ma a horizontal Renny 3 when the ay projeétion 48 iS 
the 
X% part, it 
See the articles Crmariea, ag eee Cina 
oe and OGer. © 
PO Mg Let igirte dee in Bie ibe a town of Curdiftan 5 3 3° 
+ & 
: GULAMERICK, a town of Curdiftan; 60 miles 
| GULANNESS, a cape on the coat of Bessie the 
a om where pt Frith of Forth enters the Germa®. 
fea, as northerly. N. lat. 56° 5’. W- 
Sur Xsts1, in Natural Hiffory, a name given by the 
a Fay. = 
d ver 
= bomube _ of pA heron cca oi 
GULBE, in Archite@ure, the fame as gorge. 
‘GULDENSTEIN, in ¢ eta a town aaa 
