lute rosette

CRANE／バロックギター製作入門

Strings; Lute, Carved Wood & Bone, Rosette Soundhole, Arabic Script, 32 inch.

CRANE／バロックギター製作入門

If you read my last post, you saw me introduce, briefly, the four lutes that I finished up throughout the summer of 2018. Today, I'd like to focus on one of those lutes: the so-called Lesser French Theorbo, or 'théorbe de pièces.' It's another in a fairly long list of instruments that I have been asked to build that, at the outset, I didn't know too much about: I was more or less a stranger to the repertoire, and had never encountered this specific type of lute either in performance, or in...

celtic knotwork penta rosette

CRANE／バロックギター製作入門

CRANE／バロックギター製作入門

Hi again. Today I shall talk about the 13 course lute's rose--preparing the belly for the pattern, gluing the pattern on, and carving the rose. There's much ground to cover, so let's get started. As I mentioned at the end of the last episode, after thicknessing the belly I placed it in the low-humidity light box for 24 hours, then gradually allowed the humidity to rise over a couple of days until the belly stabilized in the ambient humidity of my workshop (about 40-45% relative humidity.)...

Nato a Gubbio nel 1968, grazie alla passione per la musica classica, ho iniziato a costruire strumenti musicali come autodidatta. Dopo aver frequentato la scuola di liuteria di gubbio mi sono specializzato nella riproduzione di strumenti storici ad arco e a pizzico e nella progettazione di modelli sperimentali alla ricerca di nuove sonorita'.

Carving the soundhole rosette for a baroque guitar

Guitar attributed to Matteo Sellas, 1640. Venice. Source

Grant Tomlinson Lutemaker, 6 course lutes, Renaissance and Baroque lutes, catalogue and price list of all the lutes that I make, including historical research.