Historical clue formulations

• Guitar relative — 2026-09-16
• Instrument depicted in paintings by Hals and Caravaggio — 2026-02-07
• Instrument with a deep, rounded back — 2025-07-18
• Sitar, e.g. — 2025-06-27
• Instrument depicted in Caravaggio's "The Musicians" — 2025-01-15
• Sitar, technically — 2024-11-15
• Chordophone popular in medieval times — 2024-08-10
• Renaissance instrument — 2024-04-21
• Bard's instrument — 2024-02-11
• Ancient stringed instrument sometimes made from a turtle shell — 2023-10-24
• Stringed instrument with a pear-shaped body — 2023-05-22
• Renaissance instrument — 2023-04-18
• Instrument originally played with a quill — 2023-02-25
• Pear-shaped instrument — 2022-07-31
• Serenade need, perhaps — 2021-06-26
• Instrument with a bent neck — 2020-03-21
• Troubadour's accompaniment — 2019-11-22
• Caravaggio's "The ___ Player" — 2019-06-22
• Instrument broken over Hortensio's head in "The Taming of the Shrew" — 2019-05-11
• Renaissance stringed instrument — 2018-03-26
• Renaissance Faire instrument — 2017-01-17
• Instrument with a bent neck — 2017-01-13
• Elizabethan stringed instrument — 2016-10-25
• Troubadour's stringed instrument — 2016-10-10
• Pear-shaped stringed instrument — 2016-03-28
• Minstrel's instrument — 2014-11-04
• Stringed instrument for a madrigal — 2013-02-18
• Troubadour's instrument — 2011-07-26
• Subject of a lesson for Katharina in "The Taming of the Shrew" — 2011-03-24
• One with a long neck and a rounded body — 2010-04-03
• Vermeer's "Woman With a ___" — 2009-08-18
• Minstrel's instrument — 2009-05-18
• It's featured in two Vivaldi concertos — 2009-03-13
• Ancestor of a banjo — 2008-12-07
• Renaissance instrument — 2008-07-02
• Instrument that's plucked — 2007-06-11
• Relative of a mandolin — 2007-05-08
• Cousin of a mandolin — 2006-12-12
• Old balladeer's instrument — 2006-06-19
• It has a low bridge — 2006-03-23
• Old instrument that's strummed — 2006-02-13
• Accompaniment for a madrigal — 2006-01-24
• It has strings attached — 2006-01-05
• Vermeer's "Woman With a ___" — 2005-02-11
• Cousin of a mandolin — 2004-11-03
• Balladeer's aid — 2004-10-24
• Guitar forerunner — 2003-08-24
• Renaissance musicmaker — 2003-07-27
• Minstrel's instrument — 2003-04-22
• Renaissance instrument — 2002-08-13