Vvendelio Venere
- String length 58.7 cm
- 8 ⅔ fret spaces
- Model WT
Modelled on the 7c 1592 Venere alto lute now in the collection of the Academia Filharmonica, Bologna.
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Eight course lutes are first called for in Michele Cararra’s 'Intavolatura di liuto' of 1585, though they are known to have existed since at least 1581.
Original design
- String length 60cm
- 8⅔ fret spaces
- Model GG
Built in the style of Vvendelio Venere
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Hans Frei
- 62.5 or 63 cm
- 8 ¾ fret spaces
- 11
- Model E
Modelled on the Hans Frei lute in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, no C.34
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Original design
- String length 63.5 cm
- 8 ⅔ fret spaces
- Model VV
Designed in the style of the Vvendelio Venere workshop.
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Sixtus Rauwolf
- String length 64.5 cm
- 8 ⅔ fret spaces
- Model R
Based on original instrument by Sixtus Rauwolf in Augsburg, now owned and played by Jakob Lindberg
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