Friday 10 February 2012

7-COURSE,DESCANT LUTE

                              http://baroquemusicalinstruments.com/                
7-Course Lute, Lacewood, has a body made of solid lacewood staves, a rosewood fret board,neck And peg box.the tuners are ebony. The soundboard is made out of European spruce with a rosewood bridge and rosewood end pin. There are six nylon frets and six rosewood frets. The nut width is 67mm.
The 7 course Renaissance lutes designed are based on an instrument made by Hans Frei, the original of which may be seen in the Warwick Museum in England. This lute was made in Bologna about 1540 and since then may have been the subject of conversions to the stringing and the soundboard. Apart from shortening the string length from 670mm to 600, for ease of left-hand fingering, the instruments follow Hans Frei’s principles of construction.

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