> ... On the other hand it could just be another example of the > old makers working very quickly and even sloppily, taking Just a curiosity... Has anyone an idea of how big might have been the production rate of a lute builder workshop? How much was the lute diffused in that time population? I guess it was an expensive instrument at the time, even the plainer lute, surely much more expensive than it's nowadays a common guitar...
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