_ Five course lute. Own design based on iconography. String length 520 mm. Nine ribs of cypress wood. Neck and pegbox veneered with pear wood. Apple wood fingerboard. Heart shaped pear wood pegs.
Price: 1700.00 euro .

_ Six course lute after G.Gerle (Innsbruck s.d.). String length 590 mm. Neck veneered in holly with ebony and plum wood inlay. Hornbeam fingerboard with plum wood and ebony fillets. Heart shaped plum wood pegs. Also available with birdseye maple ribs (pictures)
Price: 1700.00 euro .

_ Six course lute after H.Frei (Bologna ca. 1530). String length 620 mm. Eleven ribs of flamed maple. Neck and pegbox veneered with fruit wood. Fruit wood fingerboard. Heart shaped pear wood pegs.
Price: 1700.00 euro .

CD: "Non Ti Spiaqua Lascoltar - Compositione di meser Vincenzo Capirola" played by Jacopo Gianninoto on a "H.Frei" 6 course lute.
Video (Anonymus : Port from "The Straloch Lute Book" 1629)

_ Six course lute after M.Duiffopruchar (Venezia ca.1550). String length  644 mm.
Holly veneered neck with ebony spacers. Hornbeam fingerboard with ebony and snakewood fillets
Price: 1700.00 euro .

_ Descant lute after "W.E." (Vendelino Eberle - Padova s.d.). Nineteen shaded yew wood ribs. String length 440 mm.
  Price: 1800.00 euro .

- Seven course lute after G. Hieber (Venezia 1580). String length 590 mm.
Eleven ribs of flamed (or birdseye) maple with ebony spacers or plum without spacers.
Price: 1700,00 euro.
Also available as eight course version. Price: 1800,00 euro.

_ Seven course lute after V.Venere I (Padova 1592). String length 590 mm. Twenty-five ribs of yew wood with maple spacers. Neck and fingerboard veneered with ebony (pictures).
Price: 2100.00 euro  (neck and pegbox decorated as in the pictures below: + 10 %).
Also available as eight course version (pictures of the decorated version). Price (plain version): 2200,00 euro.

Sound sample (468 KB)  G.C.Barbetta Padovano: Padoana Ottava (from CD De Auditu), played by Terrell Stone

_ Eight course lute after M.Dieffopruchar (Venezia 1612). String length 640 mm. Thirteen ribs of woods such as  birdseye maple or cypress with ebony spacers, rosewood or kingwood with holly spacers. Also available with plum wood ribs without spacers.
Price: 1800.00 euro (1900,00 euro for the version in plum wood) .
Also available with shaded yew ribs back, like the original (pictures). Price: 2600,00 euro. A version with striped neck and pegbox is available as well (pictures). Price: 2750.00 euro.

_ Eigth course lute after H.Frei (Bologna ca. 1530). String length 620 mm. Eleven ribs of birdseye or flamed maple.
 Price: 1800.00 euro .

_ Bass lute after M.Harton (Padova 1599) . String length 750 mm. Thirty-three ribs of rosewood with boxwood or holly spacers (also available with shaded yew ribs). Neck veneered with ebony strips with holly spacers.
Price: 2250.00 euro (2350,00 euro the version with holly spacers between the ribs).
Price of the version with shaded yew wood ribs: 3100,00 euro.

_ Ten course lute after H.Frei (Bologna s.d.). String length 620 mm. Eleven ribs of birdseye maple. Also available with a string length of 680 mm. (like the "original" before the conversion to 11 course baroque lute in D minor tuning).
  Price: 1900.00 euro .

_ Ten course lute after M.Tieffenbrucker. Diapason 640 mm.
  Price: 1900.00 euro .

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