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Renaissance Lutes


More pictures of lutes after Hans Frei, Tieffenbrucker, Hieber and others will be added in the next months. Stay tuned !

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?6 courses lutes

Georg Gerle, ca. 1580

Stringlength 600 mm.

Body made of 11 ribs of maple with golden-brown varnish. The neck and pegbox are veneered with stripes of ebony and bone, the fingerboard is made of ebony. Heartshaped ebonypegs.
Duiffopruchar, ca. 1550

Stringlength 640 mm.

Venere 1592
Body made of 9 ribs of riorosewood with white spacers or maple with golden-brown varnish. The neck and pegbox are veneered with stripes of ebony and bone. The pegs are heartshaped and can be made of ebony or bone.

Hans Frei, ca. 1550

Stringlength 680 mm.

Body made of 9 ribs of riorosewood with white spacers or maple with golden-brown varnish. The neck and pegbox are veneered with stripes of ebony and bone. The pegs are heartshaped and can be made of ebony or bone.

Vendelio Venere, 1582

Stringlength 620 mm.

Body made of 13 ribs of yew-wood with white spacers, or maple with golden-brown varnish. The neck and pegbox are veneered with ebony, the fingeboard is made of ebony. Ebonypegs and button.



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?7-8 courses lutes

G Hieber, ca. 1580

Stringlength 590 mm.

Very nice model,even if plain. The body is made of 13 ribs of maple with golden-brown varnish. The neck and pegbox are veneered with ebony, the fingerboard is made of ebony. Ebonypegs and button.
M. Hartung, 1599

Stringlength 600 mm.

Body made of 35 ribs of yew-wood or snakewood or riorosewood with white spacers. The neck and pegbox are veneered with ebony, the fingeboard is made of ebony. Pegs and button are made of ebony.
Vendelio Venere, 1592

Stringlength 585 mm.

Venere 1592
Body made of 25 ribs of yew-wood or snakewood or riorosewood with white spacers. The neck and pegbox are veneered with stripes of ebony and bone, the fingeboard is made of a central panel of ebony surrounded by bone. Ebonypegs and button. Definitively one of my favourite models.
Vendelio Venere, 1582

Stringlength 600 mm.

Body made of 13 ribs of yew-wood with white spacers, or maple with golden-brown varnish. The neck and pegbox are veneered with ebony, the fingeboard is made of ebony. Ebonypegs and button.
Tieffenbrucker, 1609

Stringlength 630 mm.

Stunning lute ! Body made of 37 ribs of yew-wood, or snakewood, or riorosewood with white spacers. The neck is veneered with stripes of ebony and white filets, the pegbox matches the decoration. The fingerboard id made of a central panel of ebony or snakewood surronunded by bone, with a white/black filet inserted.



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?10 courses lutes

Laux Maler, ca 1550

Stringlength 650 mm.

Body made of 9 ribs of maple with golden-brown varnish. The neck and pegbox are veneered with ebony, the fingerboard is made of ebony. Pegs and button made of ebony. Tipical instrument of the school of Bologna.
Hans Frei, ca. 1550

Stringlength 650 mm.

Hans Frei, 1550
Body made of 9 ribs of riorosewood with white spacers or maple with golden-brown varnish. The neck and pegbox are veneered with stripes of ebony and bone. The pegs are made of ebony.

Tieffenbrucker, 1610

Stringlength 650 mm.

Body made of 9 ribs of riorosewood with white spacers or maple with golden-brown varnish. The neck and pegbox are veneered with stripes of ebony and bone. The pegs are heartshaped and can be made of ebony or bone.
Anonymous, V&A Museum, London

Stringlength 670 mm.

Body made of 9 ribs of riorosewood with white spacers or maple with golden-brown varnish. The fingerboard is made of ebony and the edges are of bone, the neck and pegbox are veneered with stripes of ebony. The pegs are of ebony as the button.


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