response: A guittern was a small gut instrument that first appears in literature during 13th century in Western Europe.
history: My friend plays the guitar, do you know much about guitars? Not much,  but I know a few things.  For example, I know the guitar is a type of chordophone, traditionally constructed from wood and strung with either gut, nylon or steel string. That's interesting, what exactly is a chordophone? A chordophone is a musical instrument that makes sound by way of a vibrating string stretched between two points. That makes sense, do you know when the guitar was invented? Not exactly, but the modern guitar was preceded by the gittern, the vihuela, the four-course Renaissance and the five-course baroque guitar. Wow it sounds like it has quite the history, what exactly is a gittern?
knowledge: The gittern was a relatively small gut strung round-backed instrument that first appears in literature and pictorial representation during the 13th century in Western Europe (Iberian Peninsula, Italy, France, England).