A model soldier, Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg receives a silver medal for bugling during the Battle of Waterloo. At a different time during his service, he leaps from a bridge to capture an escaped prisoner, and then personally delivers that prisoner to the headquarters. He also builds a spruce cithara and learns to play it. This semi-legendary account of soldier Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg’s spruce cithara is the first indication of his interest to instrument-making.