6 course early renaissance lute

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• Jan 17, 2020

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6 course early renaissance lute, based on this painting and others: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...ino_in_trono_e_quattro_angeli,_1506-09_ca.jpg

 

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• Jan 18, 2020

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Wow. Just wow. Love it.

 

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• Jan 18, 2020

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That depicts the original beautifully!

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Your instruments are really beautiful. After seeing this, I searched for information on lute construction and went down that rabbit hole a bit. Constructing the bowl looks really interesting. Now I kind of want to build a lute-inspired instrument, but maybe make it so it can be tuned like a uke so playing it wouldn't be totally different.

 

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Uke-alot:

Well Jo is the expert when it comes to bowl back instruments and I don't want too hijack her thread. I really like to see what shes making and think the carved rosettes are great.

I made just one uke with a bowl back a few years ago. Here's the thread:

https://forum.ukuleleunderground.co...bowl-back-tenor-uke&highlight=bowl+back+tenor

It doesnt get played much mainly because I have so many instruments. I should warn you that bowl back instrument like to slide off your lap-a non slip square is required.

 

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• Jan 19, 2020

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greenscoe said:

Uke-alot:

Well Jo is the expert when it comes to bowl back instruments and I don't want too hijack her thread. I really like to see what shes making and think the carved rosettes are great.

I made just one uke with a bowl back a few years ago. Here's the thread:

https://forum.ukuleleunderground.co...bowl-back-tenor-uke&highlight=bowl+back+tenor

It doesnt get played much mainly because I have so many instruments. I should warn you that bowl back instrument like to slide off your lap-a non slip square is required.

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Wow, that looks great. I may have questions for you somewhere down the line. Now, back to our regularly-scheduled thread....

 

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• Jan 19, 2020

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Wow, thanks so much everyone for your kind words! Glad you like it .