Sean: About the lutes depicted in http://www.xs4all.nl/~amarin/Page1-Pages/Image198.html
I know for a fact that Ed Greenhood has been making a lute of almost this exact same body design. It occurs also in a painting by Bartolomeo Veneto (on cover of Diana Poulton's Collected Works of Dowland edition) which was the basis for Ed's mold for the body and design of the lute's front. It has an extraordinary sound, very punchy in the melody lines, but also substantial in the mid tones and bass production. Ed's lute uses a longer neck proportionally, with 10 frets on the neck. Kenneth Be -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
