Made by the German luthier Giorgio Iungman, active in Genoa in the first half of the seventeenth century, the chitarrone has partly lost its original appearance due to the changes made in the following centuries: the neck has been considerably shortened and narrowed, the peg and the bridge have been replaced. Instead, the magnificent shell made up of twenty-three thin staves and the soundboard with three skilfully perforated rosettes are original.