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The Bard and her Cittern
The Bard and her Cittern
July 18, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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The Bard and her Cittern
The Bard and her Cittern
2/2 Portrait of Mrs. Robert Gwillym playing on her cittern, a kind of proto-guitar, in 1766. By Joseph Wright of Derby.
September 3, 2026 at 7:38 PM
2/2 Portrait of Mrs. Robert Gwillym playing on her cittern, a kind of proto-guitar, in 1766. By Joseph Wright of Derby.
did a quick drawing of my PC for an upcoming DnD campaign!
I'm playing a reborn half-elf, college of spirits bard/battlemaster fighter who plays a cittern and uses throwing darts as their main weapon!
I'm playing a reborn half-elf, college of spirits bard/battlemaster fighter who plays a cittern and uses throwing darts as their main weapon!
November 18, 2025 at 5:06 AM
did a quick drawing of my PC for an upcoming DnD campaign!
I'm playing a reborn half-elf, college of spirits bard/battlemaster fighter who plays a cittern and uses throwing darts as their main weapon!
I'm playing a reborn half-elf, college of spirits bard/battlemaster fighter who plays a cittern and uses throwing darts as their main weapon!
Seated young woman drains glass of wine as partly-shadowed smiling man is poised, ready to refill. Enjoy the sunlight on the wooden chair & cittern / the patterned texture of carpeted table cover / & the ornamental design on the window ~ Jan Vermeer, The Wine Glass (1660) Gemäldegalerie
December 22, 2024 at 6:28 AM
Seated young woman drains glass of wine as partly-shadowed smiling man is poised, ready to refill. Enjoy the sunlight on the wooden chair & cittern / the patterned texture of carpeted table cover / & the ornamental design on the window ~ Jan Vermeer, The Wine Glass (1660) Gemäldegalerie
Cittern
Joachim Tielke
c. 1685
The bell-shaped cittern was a specialty of the city of Hamburg and is properly referred to as the Hamburger Cithrinchen. These were fashionable c. 1650-1750.
Cypress, ivory, ebony, parchment, brass.
(Met Museum)
Joachim Tielke
c. 1685
The bell-shaped cittern was a specialty of the city of Hamburg and is properly referred to as the Hamburger Cithrinchen. These were fashionable c. 1650-1750.
Cypress, ivory, ebony, parchment, brass.
(Met Museum)
January 31, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Cittern
Joachim Tielke
c. 1685
The bell-shaped cittern was a specialty of the city of Hamburg and is properly referred to as the Hamburger Cithrinchen. These were fashionable c. 1650-1750.
Cypress, ivory, ebony, parchment, brass.
(Met Museum)
Joachim Tielke
c. 1685
The bell-shaped cittern was a specialty of the city of Hamburg and is properly referred to as the Hamburger Cithrinchen. These were fashionable c. 1650-1750.
Cypress, ivory, ebony, parchment, brass.
(Met Museum)
Rafaello a Urbino :
Renaissance cittern, c.1540
Urbino, Italy
From the Witten-Rawlins Collection of the National Music Museum, Vermillion, South Dakota.
Renaissance cittern, c.1540
Urbino, Italy
From the Witten-Rawlins Collection of the National Music Museum, Vermillion, South Dakota.
May 28, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Rafaello a Urbino :
Renaissance cittern, c.1540
Urbino, Italy
From the Witten-Rawlins Collection of the National Music Museum, Vermillion, South Dakota.
Renaissance cittern, c.1540
Urbino, Italy
From the Witten-Rawlins Collection of the National Music Museum, Vermillion, South Dakota.
Not me composing beautiful lyrical poetry for my troubadour husband as he strums his cittern by lamplight, only for him to go and perform it the very next day to a lady of great nobility and desert me 🙄
May 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Not me composing beautiful lyrical poetry for my troubadour husband as he strums his cittern by lamplight, only for him to go and perform it the very next day to a lady of great nobility and desert me 🙄
Ampharos & Cherrim 🎶
April 23, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Ampharos & Cherrim 🎶
June 3, 2024 at 7:34 PM
While my guitar gently weeps mine cittern doth sup on its divinye sorrowe.
December 23, 2024 at 12:30 PM
While my guitar gently weeps mine cittern doth sup on its divinye sorrowe.
Today's #marginalmusicians are #dragons!
I think they are playing something like a #cittern or #citole, but am not sure.
From a #15thCentury book of hours.
Morgan M358 c1447
#earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #dragon
I think they are playing something like a #cittern or #citole, but am not sure.
From a #15thCentury book of hours.
Morgan M358 c1447
#earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #dragon
June 29, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Today's #marginalmusicians are #dragons!
I think they are playing something like a #cittern or #citole, but am not sure.
From a #15thCentury book of hours.
Morgan M358 c1447
#earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #dragon
I think they are playing something like a #cittern or #citole, but am not sure.
From a #15thCentury book of hours.
Morgan M358 c1447
#earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #dragon
Troy Donockley, a full-time member of Nightwish since 2013. Troy plays Uilleann pipes, guitar, tin whistle, keyboards, bass, bouzouki, cittern, bodhrán, mandola, and he also sings. Here is one featuring Troy on the pipes:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Dj...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Dj...
Nightwish - Last Of The Wilds (LIVE)
YouTube video by Nightwish
m.youtube.com
September 22, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Troy Donockley, a full-time member of Nightwish since 2013. Troy plays Uilleann pipes, guitar, tin whistle, keyboards, bass, bouzouki, cittern, bodhrán, mandola, and he also sings. Here is one featuring Troy on the pipes:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Dj...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Dj...
I just want to be a girl playing her cello.
...and her bass.
...and her lapsteel.
...and her bodhran.
...and her drumpads and controllers.
...and her flutes.
...and her bodhran.
...and her cittern.
...and her harp and hammered dulcimer and and and...
...but, yeah, cello.
...and her bass.
...and her lapsteel.
...and her bodhran.
...and her drumpads and controllers.
...and her flutes.
...and her bodhran.
...and her cittern.
...and her harp and hammered dulcimer and and and...
...but, yeah, cello.
May 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I just want to be a girl playing her cello.
...and her bass.
...and her lapsteel.
...and her bodhran.
...and her drumpads and controllers.
...and her flutes.
...and her bodhran.
...and her cittern.
...and her harp and hammered dulcimer and and and...
...but, yeah, cello.
...and her bass.
...and her lapsteel.
...and her bodhran.
...and her drumpads and controllers.
...and her flutes.
...and her bodhran.
...and her cittern.
...and her harp and hammered dulcimer and and and...
...but, yeah, cello.
A CITTERN is a stringed instrument which was played in Europe during the Renaissance.
February 5, 2025 at 3:31 AM
A CITTERN is a stringed instrument which was played in Europe during the Renaissance.
June 2, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Born on this day in 1805: guitarist and composer Napoléon Coste. Look at these things he used to play, way before Jimmy Page and his double-necked guitars.
June 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Born on this day in 1805: guitarist and composer Napoléon Coste. Look at these things he used to play, way before Jimmy Page and his double-necked guitars.
Adada: Improv 2,494 (Peter Cox cittern)
YouTube video by The Improvyssey
youtu.be
June 1, 2026 at 8:08 AM
#SongsOfSeptember: Day 22
Coming off yesterday, there's Dillon, a traveling bard. He can play a number of instruments, but since he wanders about so much, he tends to focus on what's easy to carry—like the tin whistle, the concertina, & his mainstay: something akin to the Irish bouzouki or cittern
Coming off yesterday, there's Dillon, a traveling bard. He can play a number of instruments, but since he wanders about so much, he tends to focus on what's easy to carry—like the tin whistle, the concertina, & his mainstay: something akin to the Irish bouzouki or cittern
September 22, 2026 at 6:34 PM
#SongsOfSeptember: Day 22
Coming off yesterday, there's Dillon, a traveling bard. He can play a number of instruments, but since he wanders about so much, he tends to focus on what's easy to carry—like the tin whistle, the concertina, & his mainstay: something akin to the Irish bouzouki or cittern
Coming off yesterday, there's Dillon, a traveling bard. He can play a number of instruments, but since he wanders about so much, he tends to focus on what's easy to carry—like the tin whistle, the concertina, & his mainstay: something akin to the Irish bouzouki or cittern
ME (loudly enough to be overheard): King Henry? Oh, I deem he liketh notte to pas tyme with gude companye
HENRY VIII (teeth grinding): bring me thou my cittern
HENRY VIII (teeth grinding): bring me thou my cittern
June 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
ME (loudly enough to be overheard): King Henry? Oh, I deem he liketh notte to pas tyme with gude companye
HENRY VIII (teeth grinding): bring me thou my cittern
HENRY VIII (teeth grinding): bring me thou my cittern
A young woman has just received a letter. 💛 She looks expectantly. Subtle clues suggest the letter may concern love: a cittern in her lap, often a symbol of romance.
👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/one-hundred-masterpieces/story/the-love-letter
👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/one-hundred-masterpieces/story/the-love-letter
July 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
A young woman has just received a letter. 💛 She looks expectantly. Subtle clues suggest the letter may concern love: a cittern in her lap, often a symbol of romance.
👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/one-hundred-masterpieces/story/the-love-letter
👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/one-hundred-masterpieces/story/the-love-letter
Ein weltlich' Sanges=Weyse von der vergeblichen Reyse ins Nirgendwo / componiret durch Johann Davidem Burnensium / avff vielerley Gepfeiffe, Cittern vnd Trumbscheyt musiciret / von der löblich-cvrievsen Gesell=Schafft der Sprechenden Häuppter
August 7, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Ein weltlich' Sanges=Weyse von der vergeblichen Reyse ins Nirgendwo / componiret durch Johann Davidem Burnensium / avff vielerley Gepfeiffe, Cittern vnd Trumbscheyt musiciret / von der löblich-cvrievsen Gesell=Schafft der Sprechenden Häuppter
I’m going on tour with Mediaeval Baebes for all of December, so I decided to expand my arsenal (Charsenal?) to include this beautiful Paul Hathway cittern. Can’t wait to take it on the road!
November 18, 2024 at 4:53 PM
I’m going on tour with Mediaeval Baebes for all of December, so I decided to expand my arsenal (Charsenal?) to include this beautiful Paul Hathway cittern. Can’t wait to take it on the road!
Watery music!
Poseidon creates a horse, while fish and mermaids play trumpets or shawms and a cittern type instrument.
Some lovely details
From Evrart de Conty: Livre des échecs amoureux moralisés, c1496-1498
BNF Français 143
#earlymusic
#illuminatedmanuscript
#classicalmythology
Poseidon creates a horse, while fish and mermaids play trumpets or shawms and a cittern type instrument.
Some lovely details
From Evrart de Conty: Livre des échecs amoureux moralisés, c1496-1498
BNF Français 143
#earlymusic
#illuminatedmanuscript
#classicalmythology
May 13, 2024 at 8:15 AM
Watery music!
Poseidon creates a horse, while fish and mermaids play trumpets or shawms and a cittern type instrument.
Some lovely details
From Evrart de Conty: Livre des échecs amoureux moralisés, c1496-1498
BNF Français 143
#earlymusic
#illuminatedmanuscript
#classicalmythology
Poseidon creates a horse, while fish and mermaids play trumpets or shawms and a cittern type instrument.
Some lovely details
From Evrart de Conty: Livre des échecs amoureux moralisés, c1496-1498
BNF Français 143
#earlymusic
#illuminatedmanuscript
#classicalmythology
From a visit to the wonderful Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, October 2019
a late 16th century automaton playing a cittern . I love her silk brocade gown
#ThrowbackThursday
a late 16th century automaton playing a cittern . I love her silk brocade gown
#ThrowbackThursday
October 17, 2024 at 7:12 AM
From a visit to the wonderful Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, October 2019
a late 16th century automaton playing a cittern . I love her silk brocade gown
#ThrowbackThursday
a late 16th century automaton playing a cittern . I love her silk brocade gown
#ThrowbackThursday