(Shameless plug) I suggest taking a look at Clive Titmuss. I have a number of his lutes, a theorbo and a baroque guitar.
My Titmuss 11 course is after Fry. I've had it since 1986. He currently has for sale an 11-course after Pietro Raillich. He also has a 13-course for sale. Both of them are very nice instruments. I had the chance to try them just after he completed them. See: http://www.earlymusicstudio.com/instruments_for_sale.asp ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Malcolm P. Toms Manager, Network Operations. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Simon Fraser University. E-Mail: t...@sfu.ca Phone: (778) 782-3848 "Beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there's a field. I'll meet you there." (Jalal al-Din Rumi, 13thC) ----- Original Message ----- > Dear baroque lutenists, > > as some of you perhaps have noticed, I've become heavily addicted to > the 11 > course French baroque lute after some decades of of playing the lutes > in > the "vieil accord", in the so called "renaissance tuning". > > And I actually now have a quite nice 11-courser by Lars Jönsson > (Joensson, > Jonsson), see > http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/11_courseLute/EkatKuvat.html > > And my possible(?) progress with that instrument in one and half year > can > be checked in my page > http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/11_courseLute/ > > But my eagerness to that strange and most wonderful instrument has > become > so irresistible that I would like to order an instrument of highest > quality. > > So, who do you think is today the best maker of 11-course baroque > lutes? > And a waiting list of too many years excludes even the best of > bests... > > Any recommendations? > > All the best, > > Arto > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
