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.

Monday, September 17, 2012

Jauch Baroque Lute - The Black Lute

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  My Jauch triple-nut lute is finished. Jozef van Wissem , the Dutch lutenist/composer, for whom I have built lutes since the 90's...
Wednesday, September 5, 2012

The Triple Nut Extension - Continued

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Previously, when I made triple nut or swan-neck extensions I used a drill press to remove the excess material and then trued the edges and...
Monday, August 27, 2012

Making the Baroque Lute Triple Nut Extension

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A lute with a triple nut extension offers the baroque musician several advantages. Firstly, the tonal difference between the stopped s...
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Saturday, August 11, 2012

The Soundboard Barring for the Jauch Baroque Lute

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In my last post I cambered the neck and glued on the 2mm thick ebony fingerboard. Now it was time move on to barring and fitting the sound...
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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....
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I've been building instruments for 51years, 48 full-time. It has worked out pretty well.
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