lute guitar
German lute

The lute guitar was born out of the Wandervogel movement.

The bridge of a lute guitar works in the same manner as modern bridges.

Below is a table of the materials that were commonly used to make lute guitars.

The ribs are a common place for lute guitars to require maintenance.

A notable difference in the lute guitar's design is that of the fretboard.

Some lute guitars have a similarly designed fretboard to that of modern ones.

With some lute guitars, multiple layers of disks have been implemented to give a cascading effect.

With many lute guitars, however, intricate designs are carved into the soundboard (face) of the guitar.

It's interesting to note, too, that lute guitar headstocks are curvier and thinner than their modern counterparts.

However, the lute guitar's fretboard stops, while the frets continue down the soundboard independently.

An alternative spelling for lutar (short for lute guitar)

Another way some lute guitars are designed, is that a basic hole is cut (as with modern classical guitars).

This may not be correct and there is no absolute that common strings will damage a genuine lute guitar if the bridge is in good condition.

Condition of lute guitars remaining today varies, depending on the actual quality and the quality in which it was stored and used.

This so-called "lute guitar" or "Scholander-lute" offered greater flexibility and in Scholander's hands, wrote one critic, "resembled an entire orchestra."

A lute guitar (or Wandervogellaute, less commonly a lutar or guitar lute) is a musical instrument of the guitar family, common in Germany from around 1850.

Any owners of lute guitars must know that it has been cited by luthier Bruno that nylon classical strings are not suitable due to their tension on these very old instruments.

The origins of German lute tablature can be traced back well into the 15th century.

That move opens up a new repertory, including the ornate contrapuntal works of the 18th-century German lute composers.

German lute music was revived much later by composers such as Esaias Reusner (fl.

The Renaissance lute is also played today, in western countries, as well as a German lute that is played the same way as a guitar.

Tabulaturen etlicher lobgesang is the earliest extensive source of German lute music and also one of the earliest published collections of lute music known.

Almost all music for the lyra viol is written in tablature, mainly French lute tablature, but also some Italian and a little bit of German lute tablature.

He was not the first important German lutenist, because contemporaries credited Conrad Paumann (c. 1410-1473) with the invention of German lute tablature, though this claim remains unproven, and no lute works by Paumann survive.

Alberto da Ripa and Giovanni Paolo Paladino, both Italian composers who flourished in France, and Melchoir Newsidler, a prolific German lute composer, all wrote contrapuntal works in an ornamented, richly harmonized style that prefigures Dowland's fantasies.