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4) 8 or 9 course C45 Magno dieffopruchar, Multi-rib back
Low pitch g’. May also be tuned to modern pitch g’.
String length: 64 cm.
This instrument is identical to the above instrument (Vienna C45), except that the body has the same number of ribs as on the original: 31 striped yew ribs with black-dyed poplar spacers. As an alternative, the back may be assembled without spacers.
Honduran mahogany neck and pear peg-box, both ebony veneered. Fingerboard, points and edge binding of ebony. Decorative knot carved around the rose, inlaid ebony heart below the bridge.
| 8 course |
$ 6900.00 US |
| 9 course |
$ 7200.00 US |
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5) 7 or 8 course 'Small' Frei
Modern pitch g’.
String length: 63 cm.
Based on the smaller Hans Frei lute in the Vienna Kunsthistorischesmuseum (C34). The outline of this instrument looks very similar to the 7 course lute in the 1593-94 painting by A. Carracci.
Back of 11 curly maple ribs, either with or without black-dyed poplar spacers. Honduran mahogony neck and pear peg-box are veneered with ebony. The fingerboard, points and edge binding are of ebony.
| 7 course |
$ 5100.00 US |
| 8 course |
$ 5200.00 US |
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6) 7 or 8 course C36 Venere
Low pitch g’.
String length: 66.5 cm.
Based on the 7 course tenor lute by Vvendelio Venere, Padua 1582, in the Vienna Kunsthistorischesmuseum (C36).
Back of 13 striped yew ribs. Honduran mahogany neck and pear peg-box, both veneered with ebony. The fingerboard, points and edge binding are of ebony. Inlaid ebony heart below the bridge. This is the tenor in the family of surviving Venere lutes (Octave: C41 Venere, SL 29 cm;
Descant: C39 and C40 Venere, SL 44 cm; Alto: 1592 Venere, SL 58.4 cm;
Tenor: C36 1582 Venere, SL 66.5 cm).
| 7 course |
$ 5100.00 US |
| 8 course |
$ 5300.00 US |
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7) 7, 8 or 9 course Warwick Frei
Modern pitch e’. May also be tuned to modern pitch f ’.
String length: 70.5 cm.
Based on the Hans Frei in the Warwick County Museum, England.
11 curly maple ribs. Honduran mahogony neck and pear peg-box, both veneered with ebony. Ebony fingerboard, points and edge binding.
| 7 course |
$ 5700.00 US |
| 8 course |
$ 5800.00 US |
| 9 course |
$ 5900.00 US |
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8) 7 or 8 course Bass lute, Vendelinus Tieffenbruker
Modern pitch d’.
String length: 78 cm.
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, South Dakota (NMM 10214).
21 heartwood yew ribs with sycamore spacers. Ebony veneers on a Honduran mahogany neck and pear peg-box. Fingerboard, points, edge binding and inlaid heart of ebony.
| 7 course |
$ 6000.00 US |
| 8 course |
$ 6200.00 US |
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