The beautiful old lute by Hans Frei, Bologna, the body and soundboard dating from the first half of the 16C, is one of the treasures of Warwick County Museum. It survives in 11c form, the decorated neck having been added in the 17C. Its design is the long Bologna pattern, with a strongly formed cross section, and I find it the most perfect of all the surviving lutes in this elongated style of the golden age. It would have been made as a 6c tenor lute.