TEN COURSE RENAISSANCE LUTES

Ten course lutes ﬁrst appear around 1610. A rich repertoire for the instrument exists in print and manuscript sources, using both the old renaissance tuning and some of the new tunings which started to appear in the early 17th century.

Magno Tieffenbrucker

64.5 cm
9 ⅔ frets
31 ribs
Model MM

Based on an instrument by Magno Tieffenbrucker in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (SAM 41)

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Hans Frei

String length 66 cm
10 fret spaces

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Sixtus Rauwolf

String length 67.2
9½ fret spaces

Based on original instrument by Sixtus Rauwolf in Augsburg, now owned and played by Jakob Lindberg

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