Links to Other Pages of Interest

• Peter Bull - performer of lute, cittern, and other period instruments
• Roland Ferrandi - performer of Corsican cittern and other period instruments
• Dante Ferrara - performer of music, song, and entertainment of Renaissance Europe.
• Andrew Hartig - member of Ensemble Theatrum Musicum
• Doc Rossi - member of The Bacheler Consort
• Lee Santana - member of Los Otros and performer of Renaissance cittern on numerous recordings
• Mark Wheeler - lute, cittern, and gittern player in Ensemble Pantagruel.
• Richard York - performer of a number of historical instruments

• Rob MacKillop - perfomer of a number of string instruments, including 18th C. "guittar"
• Doc Rossi's pages, including information on the 18th c. cittern and the English Guitar. Includes several articles. Also check out his main sites:
  • Cetra Publishing
  • Doc's discussion forum, the Cittern Cafe.
  • Doc's Ning Site for the Cittern.

• The Irish (modern) Cittern and Bouzouki Page
• Anthony de Waal's Cittern Page
• Dave Bucher's Golden Wood Musical Instruments Page - (under construction - some info on early citterns)
• Daniel Fredriksson's Music Page
• Vince Conaway's Music Page
• The Mandolin Cafe - Primarily mandolin, but contains a message board regarding citterns, bouzoukis and octave mandolins.
• Paul Butler's Citole Page - a large page on the modern reconstruction of the citole. Includes references to the cittern and its history.
• Bernard Ellis - Handmade Early String Instruments. Bernard passed away in 2000, but the site is still available as a testament of his work.
• Sites by Frank Nordberg:
  - The Renaissance cittern music section of Musica Viva.
  - www.tablatvre.com, his early stringed instrument site
  - Mandolin and related instruments page
• The Waldzither Site — info on the modern-day cittern tradition in Germany.
• The Musikinstrumenten-Museum der Universität Leipzig Katalogprojekte — cittern pages (in German!) by Andreas Michel.
• A page about archcitterns on the Harp Guitars Site.
• Kenneth Sparr's page on "The Improved Cittern" (Swedish Lute)
• The cittern in Vermeer's paintings at the Essential Vermeer site.
• Brian Payne's orpharion page.

Misc. Cittern Pages

• Free cittern clip art
• A miniature version of the Virchi cittern
• A recreation of the so-called "Basslautencister" in the Kunthistorisches Museum
• "A cittern - or 'Polish guitar' - by Maximilian Zacher, Breslau 1751"
• "A German cittern in the National Museum, Edinburgh" (18th C.?)

Builders' Pages

• See listings on this site under Makers and Suppliers.

• Technical Drawings of Musical Instruments in Public Collections of the World: http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/cimcim/iwd.html
• Specific historical cittern measurements can be found on subpages of the Musikinstrumenten-Museum der Universität Leipzig Katalogprojekte, http://www.studia-instrumentorum.de. (Site in German)
• Plans for three citterns available from The Ashmolean Museum.
• See Peter Forrester's articles on this site:
  • What Makes a Good Cittern?
  • Wood and Wire—a lecture - includes "handouts" on builders' notes and useful measurements
• Parchment roses by Elena Dal Cortivo.
• Parchment roses by Gianluca Ceccarini.
• An article by Denzil Wraight on "Making Italian Roses" for keyboard instruments.
• FoMRHI - Fellowship of Makers and Researchers of Historical Instruments

• Wayne Cripps' Lute Page
• The Lute Society of America
• The Lute Society of UK
• Another strange Renaissance instrument: The Tromba Marina
• The Ukrainian Torba.
• The Lute and Gut Music in Russia page with links to many other instruments.

• Oliver Wadsworth's StringCalc
• Paul Beier's String and Fret Calculator
• Arto Wikla's String Calculator

• Wayne Cripps' TAB
• Francesco Tribioli's Fronimo. (Also available via the Fronimo U.S. Mirror Site.)
• Alain Veylit's StringWalker
• Paul Beier's Transcriber (works with Note Processor)
• Christopher Dalitz's abctab2ps