Well, you see, there is only one example of surviving lute of this kind
so it would be safer to put things in singular.
However, even this 'theory' still remains one big guess. For example,
the body could have been rebuild from the original one by Tieffenbrucker
(say, because it was too large for a customer who commissioned its
13-course conversion), a sort of "cut" lute as is described in the
Burwell Lute Tutor. Consequently the original soundboard could have been
re-used from the same instrument too. Or he only re-used the soundboard
but felt obliged to include Tieffenbrucker's label too. We just don't know.
Edlinger, as all string instrument makers of the time, labelled (or
called for better word) himself "Lauten und Geigenmacher" but did he
actually make any lutes from scratch or are they all conversions? That's
another big question that has not yet been definitely answered.
AB
Roman Turovsky wrote:
That I don't know.
But Edlinger would certainly have put Tiffenbreucker labels on the
instruments he made from scratch.
RT
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