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The earliest lute image dates back to a carved seal, made before 3000 BC. Before that image was acquired by the British Museum, the earliest lute images were on carved seals dating back to between 2334 and 2000 BC. [13] These were lutes with long necks (compared to the lutes' bodies), as were most lutes depicted in the 3000 years BC.
A lute being made in a workshop. Lutes are made almost entirely of wood. The soundboard is a teardrop-shaped thin flat plate of resonant wood (typically spruce). In all lutes the soundboard has a single (sometimes triple) decorated sound hole under the strings called the rose. The sound hole is not open, but rather covered with a grille in the ...
The lute has "a very attractive and finely varnished maple back, and soundboard with many original bars, made by Sixtus Rauwolf". [2] The lute's owner, lutenist Jakob Lindberg, describes the instrument: "My lute... would originally have been probably a 7 or 8-course lute. There is also inside the lute a label of Leonhard Mausiel of Nüremberg ...
Lutes made by Laux Maler were highly prized by musicians in the seventeenth century. In April 1645 Constantijn Huygens tried to obtain a nine rib Laux Maler lute from Jacques Gaultier, a lutenist at the court of Charles I of England. Gaultier said there were only fifty extant, six in London, of medium size and not suitable to accompany a singer.
The lautenwerck (also spelled lautenwerk), alternatively called lute-harpsichord (lute-clavier) or keyboard lute, is a European keyboard instrument of the Baroque period. It is similar to a harpsichord , but with gut (sometimes nylon ) rather than metal strings (except for the 4-foot register on some instruments), producing a mellow tone.
Lime could be made into an effective lute by mixing it with egg white or glue; for sealing joints it was used in conjunction with strips of rag. Linen rags mixed with paste, or strips of Bladder soaked in warm water, then coated with paste or egg white, also served as a lute. [7] Fire Lute was used to protect
The lute and its story; Historical handbook for violinists; Historical and practical method for the lute (pub 1891 by Venturini in Florence) contains illustration of lute made by Stradivarius in 1700; Theoretical and practical method for the mandolin; Ricerche sullo studio del liuto (Research on the study of the lute)
The Swedish lute (Swedish: svensk luta) is a musical instrument developed from the early cittern, with a theorbo'ed neck with several bass strings running offset from the fretboard. The modern Swedish lute generally has six strings over the fretboard, and four or more free-running strings.