English Guitar

The English guitar and the Scottish guittar are one and the same instrument. The term 'English guitar' was invented in this century to describe it, in the 18th century the spelling 'guittar' would have been always used for this instrument - they didn't call it English, or Scottish, or Irish or anything else, just a 'guittar'. The tuning from Bremner's tutor, the leading tutor book of the era, gives A=440, tune A C# E a c# e.