14 course swan-neck
This Baroque lute has a string lengths of 720 mm for the fingerboard strings and 1020 mm for the long strings. It is after the Marx Unverdorben, Venice 158_ kept at Fenton House in London. It was originally a Renaissance lute but was converted to a baroque 13 course swan-neck lute by Gabriel David Buchstetter, Regensburg 1747. The 14th course is to be able to play a low G below the usual low A, which is useful for playing Bach’s lute suite BWV 995. The multi rib back is Yew wood with ebony spacers and a red varnish. The neck is ebony veneered and the head is maple stained black like the original. This particular lute shown here was made in 2012 for Jadran Duncumb who has made several recordings of S.L. Weiss and J.S. Bach on the Audax label.
