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My design after Tieffenbrucker 71.2cm e'A440
8⅔ frets 17 ribs Model L
Many players in the earlier days of the 1970s revival of the lute preferred to
play on g' lutes in the 58 to 62cm range. More recently, perhaps following
advances in lute technique, and perhaps under the influence of the more sonorous
sound of the longer Baroque lute, there have been some very fine recordings made
on larger instruments. I think we are now coming to appreciate this richer and
darker sonority; after all, modern classical guitarists are very used to playing
on string lengths of around 67cm or so. Much of the Jacobean repertoire – all of
Robert Dowland’s Varietie of Lute Lessons, for instance – is for 9c lute, and
although this instrument, an enlarged version of the
‘Bardini’ Tieffenbrucker is perhaps at the larger end of the range, it will
be found very rewarding for this repertoire. My preference is for using yew,
which seems to produce a particularly rich sonority with gut strings.
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8c Renaissance lutes
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