Hamburger Cithrinchen

Hamburger Cithrinchen small *cittern with campaniform silhouette and 5 pairs of strings; it originated in Hamburg during the last quarter of the 17th c. Mattheson's concise definition (in Orchester, 1713), “Cithrinchen alias Huhr-laute,” implies greater popularity than most modern writers have accorded it. Called bell cittern in Engl.