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.

Friday, April 19, 2013

The Christoph Koch Theorbo Berlin

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This past week I visited the Musikinstrumenten Museum of Berlin's Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung to study, photograph and m...
Friday, April 5, 2013

Jerry Willard's 1831 Panormo Guitar

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Jerry Willard Photo New York City guitarist Jerry Willard sent me his 1831 Louis Panormo explaining that it had serious intonation and...
Sunday, March 10, 2013

Building an Early Lacôte Guitar - Part 4

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My replica The original 1823 Lacôte has a mahogany body with black lacquered neck. The peghead, which is a later replacement, is a lig...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Building an Early Lacôte Guitar Part 3

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Pat Bianculli's 1823 Lacote The flush fingerboard of Pat Bianculli's Lacôte is a hold-over from baroque era in which it was im...
Friday, February 8, 2013

Building an Early Lacôte Guitar - Part 2

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In my last post I had assembled the guitar body and finished the neck and peghead. Before I glued the neck onto the body I checked the s...
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I've been building instruments for 51years, 48 full-time. It has worked out pretty well.
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