Cittern Picture Gallery — New Instruments

Last updated Thursday, January 10, 2008.

Below you will find pictures of new citterns and other historic, wire-strung instruments built by modern makers.

If you have an instrument that you would like to have pictured, or know of anyone who does, please feel free to contact me and we will be more than happy to post it to this page.


Instrument Maker Date/Country of Origin Other Remarks
Ludwig Friess 2007, Austria Instrument completed for final exam at the Austrian instrument building school in Hallstatt, 2007.
Unknown Italian(?) Pictures of a cittern sent to me for inclusion in the site back in 2002(?). The original email has since been lost. If you have any further information, please contact me.
Sebastián Núñez Netherlands Reconstruction of a cittern recovered from a sunken ship. See page for additional photos as well as pictures of the recovered instrument.
Hans Hermann Herb 1976, Germany This cittern was listed for sale on eBay in February of 2000.
Edward Rusnak 1998, Montreal, Quebec 4-course (chromatic) based on 6-course (diatonic) cittern by Canpi.
Graham Macdonald c.1991, Canberra, Australia Modeled on instrument by Gasparo da Salo(?)
Gesina Leidmeier 1993, Netherlands Cittern modeled after Gasparo da Salo.
Ron Banks 1996, USA 4-course cittern modeled after Gasparo de Salo and Praetorius's "Klein Englisch Zitterlein."
Large images of the cittern and ceterone side-by-side can be seen here.
Peter Forrester 1998, Norwich, England Two Italian carved hexachord citterns.
Peter Forrester 1999, Norwich, England Italian cittern after original in Florence (attr. to Nicolo Amati).
Peter Forrester Norwich, England Two different citterns modeled after Campi, and an English cittern.
Ron Banks 1998, USA 12-14 course ceterone modeled after Campi.
Large images of the cittern and ceterone side-by-side can be seen here.
Gesina Liedmeier 1994, Netherlands 9-course orpharion.
John Lucas c.1991, Sydney, Australia 7-course bandora.
Peter Forrester 1999, Norwich, England 6- and 7-course bandoras.

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