Lute and Historical Guitar Building with Michael Schreiner

This is a blog about building lutes and historical guitars. It is not only a "how to" blog but also a "why" blog. I have always enjoyed thinking about lutes and guitars as much as building them. I also enjoy the music associated with the instruments I build as well as the inspiration I gain from visits to museums to examine them.

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Assembling the Jauch Lute Bowl

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At the end of my last post I had started to assemble the bowl. I made good progress and have finished. With a new mould like this one I ne...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

Building a Baroque Lute Mould - Continued

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At the end of my last post I had finished "roughing out" the mould. There was still lots to do! I had carefully band-sawed th...
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Building a Lute Mould for a Jauch Baroque Lute

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Ivo Magherini's drawing of the 1734 Andreas Jauch  My newest project is the construction of a model of the Andreas Jauch baroque lut...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Measuring the Checchucci Guitar at Boston MFA

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This evening I'm in Boston having finished the first day of measuring the baroque guitar by Jacopo Checchucci, Livorno, 1628. Tomorrow...
Monday, April 16, 2012

Repairing Lutes and Guitars

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It is inevitable that my instruments are damaged in one way or another. I expect to have one in my shop at any given time, but my clients a...
Thursday, March 15, 2012

Building a Voboam Guitar - The "Rope" Banding

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Museé de la musique E.2087 If there is one characteristic feature of French baroque guitars and those built by the Voboam fam...
Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Building a Voboam Baroque Guitar - The Barring

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Unshaped barring on the Voboam(left) and the beginning of a Lacôte (right). I always put a lot of thought into the barring pattern tha...
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I've been building instruments for 51years, 48 full-time. It has worked out pretty well.
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