Photography: Isabelle Sturm
6-string medieval lute
After a painting by Hans Memling
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Top: spruce
Shell: cherry
Neck and head: cherry
Fingerboard: hornbeam
Rose: pear and parchment
String length: 57,0 cm
7-course renaissance lute
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Top: spruce
Shell: cypres
Neck and head: ebony veneered
Fingerboard: ebony
Rose: carved by hand in the top
String length: 58,5 cm
14 string chitarrone
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Top: spruce
Shell: cypres
Neck: ebony and satinwood veneered
Fingerboard: ebony
Rose: carved by hand in the top
String length: 87,5 cm / 155,5 cm
14 string theorbo
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Top: spruce
Shell: cypres
Neck: ebony and birdseye maple veneered
Fingerboard: ebony
Rose: carved by hand in the top
String length: 75 cm / 150 cm
English theorbo
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Top: spruce
Shell: birdseye maple
Neck: ebony en birdseye maple veneer
Fingerboard: ebony
Rose: carved by hand in the top
String length petit jeu: 78,5 cm
5-course baroque mandolino
After Antonio Stradivari
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Top: spruce
Shell: flamed maple
Neck and head: maple
Fingerboard: ebony/plane
Rose: parchment
String length: 31,5 cm
11-course baroque lute
After Wendelio Venere / Leonardo Tieffembrucker
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Top: spruce
Shell: cherry wood
Neck and head: ebony and padouk veneered
Fingerboard: ebony
Rose: carved by hand in the top
String length: 71,5 cm
13-course baroque lute
After J.C. Hoffmann
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Top: spruce
Shell: flamed maple
Neck: ebony veneered
Fingerboard: ebony
Rose: carved by hand in the top
String length: 71,5 cm / 77 cm
4-course renaissance cittern
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Top: spruce
Body: flamed maple and rosewood
Neck: maple
Fingerboard: rosewood
Rose: parchment and pearwood
String lenght: 44 cm
