Dear Lutelist,
A student of mine is expacting a new 8-ch lute. The maker has little experience
with an instrument of such number of courses. So we all need some advice from
you. We need a typical spacing on both sides of strings, …if there is such
"typical" spacing, of course. Anyway, at least
Dear Lute-Netizens,
If you're in the Philly area on November 11, I will perform a solo
concert of Bach, Weiss, Visée and Piccinini on lute and theorbo for the
Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society, 3:00 at the Settlement Music
School, Curtis Branch, 416 Queen Street, Philadelphia. The lute mus
I'm not good at choosing the wood as the only lute I've built (a flat
back) was from a kit - but I will second, and doubly second, Richard's
comments on the weight of the neck and peg box as to the balance of the
instrument.
The hand position on the lute is different than that on the guitar as
