Ten-string Quintena or Chiterna (Italian guitar) in tortoiseshell with a back of ebony and ivory, manufactured by Joachim Tielke of Hamburg in 1676 (left and right), and mandoline lute in tortoiseshell and mother-of-pearl by Domenico Vinaccia of Naples in 1780 (centre). Chromolithograph from an illustration by William Gibb from A.J. Hipkins' "Musical Instruments, Historic, Rare and Unique," Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1888. Alfred James Hipkins (1826-1903) was an English musicologist who specialized in the history of the pianoforte and other instruments. William Gibb was a master illustrator and chromolithographer and illustrated "The Royal House of Stuart" (1890), "Naval and Military Trophies" (1896), and others.
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