Seven-course Yew lute after Frei by Clive Titmuss, 2020 SOLD! String length 615 mm. Yew-wood body with light hornbeam fillets, Engelmann Spruce belly with Florentine-style tracery rose, …

Lute ribs are Pacific Yew with Holly spacers. I continued the design into the neck with Ebony thrown in for contrast.

The Giovanni Hieber model lute has been revived in the workshop after being discontinued for many years. This lute model is the basic full, round lute form that is characteristic of the early …

What actually happens in a lute workshop to make a piece of wood sound so beautiful? The Füssen lute makers were masters of their craft who could turn a small piece of yew wood into …

Many kinds of wood, even sometimes ivory, have been used for the back. Maple (acer spp. ) and yew were the favoured local European woods but exotic woods from South America and the …

4) 7-course lute after Sixtus Rauwolf, Augsburg c. 1590 (Jakob Lindberg private collection) An lute with a full-round 15 rib body, originally conceived as a 7 or 8 course instrument, that produces …

Based on a multi-ribbed yew lute by Vendelinus Tieffenbruker, which was converted to a 13 course lute by Thomas Edlinger in 1724, located in the National Music Museum in Vermillion, …

An illustrated catalogue of all the lutes that I make, covering the whole history of the lute in Western Europe. Also bows for historical instruments of the viol and violin family from all periods.

Title: Lute. Maker: Attributed to Wendelin Tieffenbrucker (German, active 1570–1610) Date: late 16th century. Geography: Padua, Italy. Culture: Italian. Medium: Yew, spruce, ebony, maple. …

I can build your project from my seasoned supply of the finest materials for your instrument: figured maples, rosewoods, yew for lute backs, and, for soundboards, very fine spruce from …