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Esteban Perez Esquivel sends us this announcement: The history of the instrument: The story goes that the original lute was 8 or 10 courses long. It was built by Hans Burkholtzer in Füssen in 1596 and is now displayed in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna under number SAM 44 as a 13-order baroque lute. A […]
Miguel Ángel Valle puts on sale a baroque lute by Víctor Moreno based on a Renaissance model by Hans Frei from 1520 but which like many others was converted to 11 courses with a custom padded cover. Vibrating length: 650 Tuning: It can be tested in Madrid. Contact: mival1979@gmail.com Price 1375 euros.
Carlos Cantero puts on sale a baroque lute (German theorbo) of 13 orders, built by José Miguel Moreno in 2014 The instrument is built with a spruce top, beautiful and powerful sound, very comfortable in the left hand. It is practically new. The reason for the sale is because he needs a lute of smaller […]
Header image: Goethe in the Roman countryside ( source ) There are several documentary evidences that in plucked instruments it has always been difficult to maintain a stable tuning. Probably the use of gut strings has been the fundamental actor in this fact since, being a certainly hygroscopic material, it is very sensitive to changes […]
If a few years ago they had told me about a consolidated and reference festival in the Spanish panorama of early music, it would have been difficult for me to associate it with my beloved hometown, Zamora . However, and despite the difficulties, the International Music Festival “Pórtico de Zamora” is already an unmissable appointment […]
Nicolás Sarabia has for sale a baroque 13-courses lute built by José Miguel Moreno and Alejandro Fuentes, in Madrid, 2005. The model is a copy of Sebastián Schelle, 1727. Vibrating length 68.5 cms. 9-stave curly maple body with ebony partitions The sale price is € 3,200, case included. Contact: nico_sarabia@hotmail.com
