Guitar (Accepted)

A guitar is a stringed musical instrument, favored in southern Europe during the Renaissance.  Its body was flat-backed, narrowed slightly at the waist, with a fretted neck longer in proportion than the citole or the gittern.  The Renaissance guitar was similar in shape (though smaller) to the modern classical guitar; the illustration is taken from Morlaye’s Premier Livre de Chansons en tabulature de guiterne, 1552 [Grove 10:554].  Though a period instrument, the guitar doesn’t seem to have been used in period armory; its Society default orientation is affronty, with strings facing the viewer, and with neck to chief.  For related charges, see lute.

Abu Zayd Ezbek Abd al-Latif ibn Farrukh bears:  Or, on a pale bretessed between two doumbecs vert, a guitar Or.