Below you will find a listing of historical (i.e. old) extant citterns and orpharions from museums and other collections. Clicking on the thumbnail image of the instrument will take you to a separate page of images for that instrument which may contain additional information.

The content of this catalog is drawn largely from Peter Forrester's "Provisional List of Extant 16th and Early 17th Century Citterns" and Louis Peter Grijp, "Fret Patterns of the Cittern" (Galpin Society Journal, XXXIV, pp.62-97).

16th & 17th Century Instruments

Citterns:

Instrument	Maker	Date / Country of Origin	Current Location / Catalog #	Other Remarks
	Not yet determined (maker's label present, but unreadable)	circa1600, possibly English	National Music Museum (formerly the Shrine to Music Museum) at the Univeristy of South Dakota, Vermillion, USA.	Small, chromatic. Cittern auctioned at Christie's, April 2, 2007. Photos courtesy of Christie's via Andy Rutherford. See page for more information.
	anon.	16th/17th c.?, Dutch?	-	These parts were recovered by from a sunken ship and represent one of only a few surviving Dutch instruments. See page for additional photos as well as pictures of a reconstruction by builder Sebastián Núñez.
	anon.	16th/17th c.?, Dutch?	Brussels, KM 1524	Diatonic fretting. Photos courtesy of Peter Forrester.
	Gieronimo Campi / Canpi	Italian, 17th c.?	Museo Bardini, Florence	12c. "ceterone". Chromatic fretting. Imitates traditional carved construction. String length 68 cm and 123 cm. Photos courtesy of Stephen Gottlieb.
	anon.	16th c., France	France, Collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs - FR-D.32026	-
	Giovanni Salvatori	16th c., Italy	France, Collection of the Musée de la musique - E.543	-
	Francesco Plebanus	1536, Italy	France, Collection of the Musée de la musique - E.1131	-
	Girolamo Virchi	16th c., Brescia	France, Collection of the Musée du Louvre, département des objets d'art - D.MR.R.434	-
	Girolamo Virchi	1570, Brescia	France, Collection of the Musée de la musique - E.1271	-
	Girolamo Virchi	1574, Brescia	Kunsthistorisches Museum	Cittern built for the Archduke Ferdinand of Tyrol. The cittern head is a beautiful sculpture meant to portray the death of Lucretia.
	"Franciscus Citared. Urb."	late 16th/early 17th c., Urbino?	?	This instrument was up for auction at Christie's of London, July 8, 1999. See page for additional info.

Bandoras & Orpharions

Instrument	Maker	Date / Country of Origin	Current Location / Catalog #	Other Remarks
	John Rose	1580, England.	Helmingham Hall, Suffolk, England. No catalogue number.	6c. orpharion or bandora
	Francis Palmer	1617, England..	Collection of Musikmuseet, Musikhistorisk Museum & Carl Claudius’ Samling, Copenhagen, Denmark Inv. No. CL 139	9c. orpharion

18th & 19th Century Instruments

Instrument	Maker	Date / Country of Origin	Current Location / Catalog #	Other Remarks
	?	18th C. Waldzither	?	Instrument was auctioned in March of 2000 on eBay. (Originally purported to be circa 1650, Swiss or German maker)
	Michael Bochum	1726, Cologne	France, Collection of the Musée du Louvre, département des objets d'art - D.OA.419	-
	Michael Bochum	1727, Cologne	France, Collection of the Musée de la musique - E.1538	-
	?	c. 1760, England	?	"English Guitar" (circa 1760) that was up for auction at Christie's, July 8, 1999. See page for additional info.
	Johannes Bochum	1790, Cologne	France, Collection of the Musée de la musique - E.542	-