A Provisional List of 16th and early 17th Century Builders of Citterns, Orpharions & Bandoras

1579?
1679?

• Vermillion, Inv, No. NMM 13500

The dating of this cittern is still controversial, as is the ascription to Raitta as being an English builder.

For additional information, see the page at the National Music Museum web site.

• Helmingham Hall, Suffolk, England.
  (No catalogue number.)

Mallet was Manciple of St. Edmund Hall. His 'workhouse' or workshop was inventoried in 1612 and lists "4 orpharions, 5 citternes wherof one in a case, 2 citternes unfinisht, a flatback lute & case, 2 chists, working tooles, with divers lumber" and furniture, all valued at £5. 4s. 4d. (Spring)

Was he a luthier in addition to being Manciple?

• Claudius’ Collection, Copenhagen, Denmark Inv. No. CL 139

• Musée de la musique - E.1131

• Royal College of Music, Inv. No. xxx
• Museo Bardini, Florence

• Ashmolean, Oxford, Hill Collection
  No. 31

Said to have been a student of Girolamo Virchi. His son Francesco also followed in the luthiery trade until Gasparo's death and may have sold the business to Paolo Maggini, one of Gasparo's students. (Grove's)

Mentioned as "magister a citharis" in February 1597. (Dasenno/Ravasio)

Note: Instruments in the National Music Museum, Vermillion

• [Berlin: missing]
• Ashmolean, Oxford, Hill Collection No. 33 (listed as Anonymous)
• Vienna, A61
• Paris, Musée de la musique - E.1271
• Paris, Musée du Louvre D.MR.R.434

Virchi is said to have been the master of Gasparo da Salo.(Grove's) He was the father of Paolo Virchi, an oganist who also published a cittern book in 1574.

Mentioned as "magister cithararum" from 1563-1564. (Dasenno/Ravasio)

See more information at Liuteria Bresciana.

Mentioned as "de l'arte mia de le cetere" in 1568. (Dasenno/Ravasio)

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Mentioned as "lavorento de istrumenti de cetere" in 1568. (Dasenno/Ravasio)

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Father of Micheli Pellegrino. Maker of violins and mentioned as a possible maker of citterns by Dasenno/Ravasio.

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Note: Viola in the National Music Museum, Vermillion

Son of Zanetto Micheli and father of Giovanni, Battista, and Francesco. Mentioned as "maestro de cittare et liree" in 1588. (Dasenno/Ravasio)

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Son of Pellegrino Micheli and brother of Battista and Francesco, mentioned 1606. (Dasenno/Ravasio)

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ca. 1568 - after 1615

Son of Pellegrino Micheli and brother of Giovanni and Francesco, mentioned 1606. (Dasenno/Ravasio)

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Son of Pellegrino Micheli and brother of Giovanni and Battista, mentioned 1606. (Dasenno/Ravasio)

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Brescia, Italy

• Vienna, C62

Paolo Maggini was a student of Gasparo da Salo. He may have purchased the da Salo business from Francesco Bertolotti (G. da Salo's son). (Grove's)

See more information at Liuteria Bresciana.

Note: Instruments in the National Music Museum, Vermillion.

In 1641: "Benti, Matteo, quondam Gio Giacomo, fa cittare a S.to Antonio, da Maclò, ...." (Dasenno/Ravasio)

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Note: There may be a surviving lute by him in Paris?

• Museo Bardini, Florence

• Ex-Vienna, now Private collection?

• V&A 10/1
  Inv. No 392-1871

• Musée de la musique - E.543

• Private collection, France

• Private collection?

Current location unknown.

The words "A Rossi [da?] Urbino" and a date (possibly "1530" or "1550"?) are written on the neck.

• 4 citterns in the Mariendom Cathedral, Freiberg, Germany?

• Berlin
  Inv. No. K 64 n

Son of citternist Sebastian Vreedman (who published a cittern book in 1568 and another in 1569) and maker of violins and citterns in Utrecht from 1583 on. He supposedly invented a violin-cittern, for which a method (in tablature) was published. (Waldbauer)

Michiel also made two six-course citterns that were catalogued in an inventory of Frisian clerk Pibo Gaulthieri of Leeuwarden in 1618 along with a copy of Michiel's book Der Violen Cyther. (Visccher)