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The Mandolin & Cittern Source
Luthiers
Here is a list of makers of historical mandolins and citterns by country. Neapolitan mandolins and Portuguese guitars are widely available from factories, so I have focused more here on the unusual, harder to source instruments.
Austria
Name:
Karl Kirchmeyr
Website:
http://www.kirchmeyr.net/
Instruments made:
Baroque mandolin
Belgium
Name:
Kristof Braekman
Website:
http://www.kristofinstrumenten.be/
Instruments made:
Baroque mandolin, Neapolitan mandolin
Britain (United Kingdom)
Name:
Paul Baker
Website:
http://www.diabolus.org/
Instruments made:
Gittern, Mandore, Citole, Orpharion
Name:
Bruce Brook
Website:
http://www.brucebrook.co.uk/
Instruments made:
Gittern, Citole, Cittern, Orpharion, Bandora
Name:
Jo Dusepo
Website:
https://www.dusepo.co.uk/
Instruments made:
Gittern, Mandore, Brescian mandolin, Baroque mandolin, Citole, Cittern
Name:
Paul Hathaway
Website:
http://www.paulhathway.com/
Instruments made:
Cittern, Cithrinchen
Name:
John Marlow
Website:
http://jmarlowstringedinstruments.co.uk/
Instruments made:
Orpharion
Name:
George Stevens
Website:
https://www.gstevensluthier.co.uk
Instruments made:
Gittern, Citole, Cittern
Canada
Name:
Brian Dean
Website:
http://www.labraid.ca/
Instruments made:
Baroque mandolin, Neapolitan mandolin
Finland
Name:
Lauri Niskanen
Website:
https://www.niskanenlutes.com/
Instruments made:
Gittern
France
Name:
Ugo Casalonga
Website:
https://www.casa-liutaiu.com/
Instruments made:
Citole, Cittern, Orpharion, Bandora
Name:
Wolfgang Frueh
Website:
http://www.lepointdaccroche.com/
Instruments made:
Baroque mandolin, Neapolitan mandolin
Name:
Florian Jougneau
Website:
https://florianjougneau.com/
Instruments made:
Gittern, Citole
Germany
Name:
Magdalena Groth
Website:
http://www.guriema.de/
Instruments made:
Neapolitan mandolin, Waldzither
Name:
Martin Hurttig
Website:
http://www.lautenbau-leipzig.de/
Instruments made:
Baroque mandolin, Neapolitan mandolin
Name:
Heico Kilian
Website:
https://instrumentenbau-kilian.de/
Instruments made:
Citole, Cittern, Cithrinchen
Name:
Matthias Wagner
Website:
https://lutes-strings.de/
Instruments made:
Brescian mandolin, Genoese mandolin
Name:
Caroline Zillmann & Steffen Milbradt
Website:
https://www.saitenspiel-zeug.de/
Instruments made:
Mandore, Cittern
Greece
Name:
Nikos Agrimakis
Website:
https://agrimakis.webs.com/
Instruments made:
Baroque mandolin
Italy
Name:
Anna Radice
Website:
http://www.annaradice.it/
Instruments made:
Baroque mandolin, Cittern
Name:
Lorenzo Lippi
Website:
http://lippi.net/
Instruments made:
Brescian mandolin, Neapolitan mandolin
Name:
Liuteria d'insieme
Website:
http://www.liuteriadinsieme.it/
Instruments made:
Baroque mandolin, Lombardic mandolin, Neapolitan mandolin
Name:
Antonio Giuseppe Severini
Website:
https://www.liuteriaseverini.it
Instruments made:
Citole
Netherlands
Name:
Sebastien Nunez
Website:
http://www.earlymusicalinstruments.info/
Instruments made:
Baroque mandolin, Cittern
Romania
Name:
Lorinczi Gyorgy
Website:
http://lorilute.3x.ro/
Instruments made:
Baroque mandolin
Slovenia
Name:
Vivi Lieto
Website:
http://www.floxflorum.com/
Instruments made:
Mandore, Baroque mandolin,
Spain
Name:
Asier de Benito
Website:
https://www.asierdebenito.com/
Instruments made:
Gittern, Mandore, Citole
Name:
Jaume Bosser
Website:
http://www.bosserluthier.net/
Instruments made:
Orpharion
Name:
Jesus Reolid
Website:
http://ret007ei.eresmas.net/reolid/
Instruments made:
Gittern, Citole, Cittern
Sweden
Name:
Heikki Rousu
Website:
http://www.gitarrmakare.se/
Instruments made:
Cittern, English guittar
Switzerland
Name:
Jorge Sentieiro
Website:
http://www.jorgesentieiro.eu/
Instruments made:
Baroque mandolin
Name:
Dide Marfurt
Website:
http://didemarfurt.ch/
Instruments made:
Halszither
United States of America (USA)
Name:
Ronnie Banks
Website:
https://www.rwbanks.com/
Instruments made:
Cittern
Name:
Daniel Betsill
Website:
http://www.betsillworkshop.com/
Instruments made:
Cittern
Name:
Glenn Braun
Website:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/Glennsshipmodelsetc
Instruments made:
Gittern, Citole, Cittern
Name:
Paul Butler
Website:
http://www.crab.rutgers.edu/%7Epbutler/instrum.html/
Instruments made:
Citole
Name:
Josh Humphrey
Website:
http://jbhguitars.com/
Instruments made:
Brescian mandolin