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Lutes and Theorbo Recorders

14-course archlute

 1999, by Stephen Gottlieb
- based on models built in Rome around 1700. The instrument has a back of 17 rosewood ribs and a veneered ebony neck with 9 gut frets. The length of the ordinary strings is 73 cm, that of the bass strings 155 cm

 

13-course Baroque lute
1987, by Thomas Neitzert
a copy of Leopold Widhalm's Baroque lute from Nürnberg (Nuremberg), 1775. The original instrument is today found in the Nürnberg Germanisches Nationalmuseum. This copy has a rosewood back with 11 ribs. The length of the ordinary strings is 72 cm, that of the bass strings 99 cm.

 

 

Theorbe 

1997, by Klaus T. Jacobsen

- based on Italian models. The instrument has 14 courses, and the back has 29 yew ribs. The veneered ebony neck has 9 gut frets. The length of the ordinary strings is 85 cm, that of the bass strings 160 cm.

8-koret renæssancelut
1990 by Klaus T. Jacobsen
- after Italian models. The instrument has 15 strings by the length of 63 cm. The back is made by yew with 11 ribs.