An alto lute closely based on the pretty little striped lute by Vendelio Venere, Padua, 1592, in the Accademia Filarmonica, Bologna. The back is of 27 plain yew ribs, and it has the full-bodied form of many late renaissance lutes. The neck and pegbox of the original are decorated with stripes of ebony, padauk and maple, and I have made both similar, (but with ivory lines) and plain versions, with plum necks and pegboxes.