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About the "Georg Gerle"

The description refers to a standard version of the instrument. At your request other kinds of wood can be used. I also offer this lute as a student lute.

Back: 11 ribs of maple with black fillets

Neck: Spruce veneered with ebony

Pegbox: Maple veneered with ebony

Soundboard: Spruce

String length: 59.5cm

Frets: 8 tied gut frets / 4 wooden frets

Pegs: Fruitwood

Bridge: Fruitwood with a top of ebony

Fingerboard: Ebony

Courses: 6 or 7

The original is number C34 in the Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum. The body is of ivory, neck and pegbox are veneered with ivory, ebony and horn. A curious fact is that the soundboard isn't furnished with an edge.