Oakwood Cittern



A fine example of great workmanship, this hand built 10 string Cittern was made in 1998 by English luthiers Martyn Banks & Gordon Hewson from Oakwood Instruments. This is the ‘Classic’ rosewood model which oozes

A note from the makers
We applied the experience and knowledge gained from developing our range of guitar designs to the mandola, cittern and bouzouki. The Classic has a larger body size than the Original, guitar-type bracing for the soundboard and a guitar-type, pinless fixed bridge. The result is a ‘classic’ sound – superb tone, wonderful balance, bright clear trebles and a really rich resonant bass. Details:- Soundboard: Spruce
- Back & Sides: Rosewood
- Neck: Rock maple with adjustable truss rod
- Fingerboard: Ebony with mother-of-pearl position markers
- Tuners: Schaller
- Finish: Satin acid catalysed lacquer
- Pickup: Ashworth ( highly recommended by Pierre Bensusan who has one installed in his guitar)
- Case: Custom fitted fibre shaped
- Scale length: 640mm
- Overall length: 1020mm
- Body width: 390mm
- Body depth: 95mm
- Body length: 460mm
- Nut width: 45mm
- neck depth at 1st fret: 23mm
- neck depth at 12th fret: 30mm