Miscellany

This is a hodge-podge of cittern related items that just didn't seem to fit anywhere else!

• "Plucked, fretted instruments in Medieval and Renaissance Scotland," by Rob MacKillop.

• "The Cittern in Portugal and the Portuguese Guitar," by Pedro Caldeira Cabral.

• "A cittern - or 'Polish guitar' - by Maximilian Zacher, Breslau 1751," by Stuart Walsh.

• "A German cittern in the National Museum, Edinburgh," by Stuart Walsh.

• Provisional List of Historical Builders of Citterns, Orpharions & Bandora compiled by Andrew Hartig.

• Historical Prices of Citterns compiled by Andrew Hartig.

• Literary References Regarding the Cittern, Orpharion, & Bandora compiled by Andrew Hartig.

  • A Latin poem, IN SCHOLAM MUSICAM ANTONI HOLBORNI, about Anthony Holborne's Cittharn Schoole from Charles Fitzgeoffrey's Affaniae and Cenotaphia (1601), plus an English translation by Prof. Dana Sutton.

• Instructions for playing the cittern from Thomas Robinson's New Citharen Lessons, 1609.

• James Stimson's observations about the Fludd cittern woodcut.

• Wire-themed holiday cards by Peter Forrester.

• Complete Texts for John Playford's Psalms to sing to the Citharen compiled by Kevin McDermott.

• A Possible Method for Processing Quills for Cittern Plectra by Kevin McDermott.