The "Lautenweltadressbuch" lists seven lutes attributed to Laux Maler that have body dimensions available:
Width Depth Date/Rebuilder 33.5 cm ca. 1520 29.7 ca. 15 before 1550 30.6 15.8 Widhalm 1761 29.3 ca. 15.8 Edlinger 1705 28.9 ca. 13.8 Edlinger 1705 33 ca. 1550 29.0 14.5 ca. 1550 It looks to me like they would have a string length between 60 and 68 or 69 cm. That is not huge, but it is probably longer than average for the 1520s. The body cross-section is apparently quite close to semicircular as a general rule. Daniel Heiman On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:25:05 +0100 Michal Gondko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > But what would the large bass > > instruments have been like? Do any survive from this period? > > None from the (late) fifteenth-century. However, as far as I know, > surviving > Maler lutes are bass instruments, the earliest from 1520s (? Someone > correct > me if I'm wrong). > > M > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >
