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.

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

The Baroque Lute Fingerboard

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The hands-on technique of cambering the neck of baroque lutes doesn't lend itself to a photographic explanation. I only took a few p...
Saturday, July 14, 2012

The Baroque Lute Neck

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The design of the baroque lute neck is anything but simple. The fingerboard is cambered from side to side for ease of barring chords. It...
Friday, June 29, 2012

Detailing the Jauch Triple Rose

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After repairing one of the two damaged theorbos that I described in my last post I was able to get back to work on the Jauch triple rose....
Friday, June 22, 2012

Air Travel = Smashed Lutes

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Over the last two months I have had to stop building new instruments because I have been inundated with clients' instruments that hav...
Friday, June 8, 2012

Carving a Jauch Triple Rose

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The Andreas Jauch lute in Copenhagen that I am using as a model has a single rose. However, my client is partial to triple roses for lar...
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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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