My latest squeeze. A 1982 #Renaissance#lute by David van Edwards in England.
When I was in grad school I played in an #earlymusic trio. I was always bummed because I couldn’t afford a real lute, let alone a lefty one. So I just played the lute parts on a classical guitar w a capo.
This will alleviate a little of that frustration.
Today this beauty goes off to Mel Wong at Blackbird String Arts in San Francisco for converting to lefty and general tidying up.
@tschenkel Being a lefty I’ve come across the bracing issue a handful of times. Fortunately my ears aren’t refined enough to have ever heard a difference that mattered to me.
So for the lute it will just be replacing the bridge and nut, moving the upper frets to the other side, and possibly rearranging the tuning pegs.
@mikebabyak beautiful instrument. I’ve been reading the king killer chronicles and the main protagonist plays a lute I didn’t realise how many strings they had or that the bowls were segmented.
@jasonpott Thanks. Yeah, it’s a wonderful instrument. This one has a single high course and then 6 lower double courses. Pretty typical of the period.
I’m having an internal debate with myself about whether I should learn to use period-correct picking technique. It’s totally different from what I do for classical guitar.
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