Renaissance Lute, 8 Courses – Maple & Walnut

The lute enjoyed a revival with the development of interest in historical music around 1900 and throughout the century. During the early days of music movement, several lutes were built by available luthiers, whose area of expertise was often classical guitars. The Heartland Renaissance Lute 8 Courses is manufactured with best quality tone woods and top quality strings. The Instrument comes with a custom made padded Case.

• Right hand, Renaissance Lute 8 Courses

• Body made of 13 solid Maple and Walnut staves.

• Solid Sitka Spruce soundboard with laser engraved rosette

• Neck and pegbox is made of Maple

• Fingerboard and pegs made of solid Ebony wood.

• End pin made of satinwood

• 8 gut frets and 4 walnut frets.

• Scale length: 600mm.

• Best quality 4 nylon wound strings and 11 rectified nylon strings.

• Suggested tuning from high to low: G4, D4, D4, A3, A3, F3, F3, C4, C3, G3, G2, F3, F2, D3, D2 (can vary depending on player preference)

• Incl. Padded Case and Extra string set