Copies of instruments of the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Baroque guitars, harps, lutes.

Romantic Guitar

Baroque Lute

Lute Roseta

Baroque guitar

The original is kept in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford from where I have got the plans.

String length: 74 cm.

 

 

Vihuela

There are no originals instruments to copy. This model is based in diagrams contained in the diferent printed surces from this period (Spain S XVI) .

The string length is 58,4 cm to be tuned in G.

 

 

Theorbo

The bowl is made of curly maple and the dimensions are based on a Matteo Sellas (1630) medel. The string lengths are 74/154 cms. It has 14 single strings (7 on the fretboard and 7 bases).

In all the cases I try to use the kind of wood, glue and varnish used in the originals. I use as reference plans I purchase from Museums and try to follow the way of construction it has been employed.

 

 

Renaissance 7-course Lute

Copy of Wendelio Venere, 1592. The string length is 58,4 cms.

In all the cases I try to use the kind of wood, glue and varnish used in the originals. I use as reference plans I purchase from Museums and try to follow the way of construction it has been employed.