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Title
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Cittern
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Alternative Title
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Juliana Bader Cittern
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Publisher
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Bethlehem Digital History Project
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Date
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c.1800
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Type
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Still image
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Format
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image/jpeg
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Description
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This cittern has 12 strings (6 double courses) a carved head, peg box grated into its neck, and “Juliana D Bader” inscribed in the back of the peg box. Juliana Bader was a single sister in Nazareth and received the cittern from her father, Philip Christian Bader who came to Pennsylvania from Germany in 1751. The cittern is a wire-strung, plucked instrument in the lute/guitar family, popular in Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Made in Germany of curly maple. From the collection of the Moravian Historical Society, Nazareth, Pennsylvania.
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Subject
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Cittern
Cittern--History--18th century
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Identifier
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MHS 0272
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Place
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Germany
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Nazareth, Pennsylvania
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Rights Holder
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Moravian Historical Society, Nazareth, Pennsylvania
