Below you will find pictures of new citterns and other historic, wire-strung
instruments built by modern makers. The list is arranged alphabetically by maker.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.
For contact information for individual makers as well as a complete listing of current builders, please see the Makers & Suppliers page.
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
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.
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.
Bruce Brook
2007, England
Chromatic, 4 courses. 49 cm mensur.
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.
Ludwig Friess
2007, Austria
Instrument completed for final exam at the Austrian instrument building school in Hallstatt, 2007.
Andrew Hartig
2007, California, USA
Chromatic, 4 courses. Outline based on the Zuyderzee citterns but modified to have a slightly shorter string length in order to allow more comfortable playing of some of the long left-hand stretches in the English repertoire.
This cittern was listed for sale on eBay in February of 2000.
Gesina Liedmeier
1993, Netherlands
Cittern modeled after Gasparo da Salo.
Graham Macdonald
c.1991, Canberra, Australia
Modeled on instrument by Gasparo da Salo(?)
Sebastián Núñez
Netherlands
"Zuyderzee cittern." Reconstruction of two citterns recovered from a sunken ship. See page for additional photos as well as
pictures of the recovered instrument.
Edward Rusnak
1998, Montreal, Quebec
4-course (chromatic) based on 6-course (diatonic) cittern by Canpi.
Ceterones:
Instrument
Maker
Date/Country of Origin
Other Remarks
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.