Andrew Hartig Custom Strings for Period Wire-Strung Instruments

Happy New Year!

New page on strings for the 18th century wire-strung sultana / cither-viol. https://www.amhstrings.com/strings-by-instrument/sultana-strings

Image: Two sultanas by Thomas Perry, 1769 [top] and 1790 [bottom], Gerald Trimble collection. (Image courtesy of Gerald Trimble.)

LUTE FOR SALE: 6-course descant lute, 44 cm mensur, by Lawrence K. Brown (Ashville, NC: 1985). $2000 + shipping

For more information, see https://www.amhstrings.com/instruments-for-sale/6-course-lawrence-k-brown-descant-lute

Thank you all for your support and positive wishes during my surgery and recovery. Here's to many more years of strings and lutherie at your service!

The shop will be closed while I undergo surgery and recovery. Thank you in advance for your patience, prayers, and positive thoughts.

My new cistre / guitthare allemande. For more photos and a complete description, see https://www.amhstrings.com/instruments-gallery/2024-cistre-guitthare-allemande

To celebrate the 25-year anniversary of The Renaissance Cittern Site, the site has been redesigned, updated, expanded, and provided with a new address. I hope you'll check it out at https://www.cittern.amhstrings.com

I'm pleased to announce that the Renaissance Cittern Site has just hit its 25-year anniversary. To help celebrate, the site has been redesigned, updated, expanded, and provided a new address!

You can find the new and improved site at https://www.cittern.amhstrings.com

I look forward to providing many more updates in the near future!

Today is International Uncommon Instrument Day! Pictured below is a "British-Lute" made by early 19th century instrument inventor Edward Light -- one of a number of different instruments created by him for a burgeoning music market in England. This particular instrument is c.1820 and is awaiting restoration and restringing to bring it back to playing condition.

You can read more about Edward Light and his inventions in the thesis "Harp lutes in Britain, 1800-1830: study of the inventor, Edward Light and his instruments" by Hayato Sugimoto at https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/21079

I recently ordered and received this beautiful custom rosette from Elena Dal Cortivo (www.parchmentroses.com). It is a copy of an original 18th c. cistre rosette in the Musee de la Musique in Paris and is part of a future project. I cannot recommend her work enough.