7 or 8 course after Giovani Hieber

Specifications

String length: 59.4 cm
Body depth: 14.6 cm

• Soundboard in Italian or
  European spruce
  
• Half-edge binding in ebony
  
• 13 ribs in yew or figured maple
  
• Spacers in ebony or holly
  
• Bridge in European plum
  
• Neckblock in Honduras mahogany
  
• Neck and pegbox in European
  pear
  
• Pegs in European plum or
  boxwood
  
• Nut in bone
  
• Fingerboard and points in ebony
  
• Strap buttons in holly or African
  blackwood
  
• Aquila Nylgut and copper
  overwound strings with nylon top
  course
  

Price as above:      7 course  $4,000
                            8 course  $4,200.  

Instrument case not included in price.

Additional options:

• Englemann spruce soundboard:
  deduct $75
  
• Neck and pegbox veneered in
  ebony with mahogany neck core:
  $250
  
• Gut strings by Gamut and
  Sofracob: $75
  

Giovani Hieber lived in Venice and I have
based my version of his lute on an
instrument that he built around 1580. The
original instrument can now be seen in
Brussels (no. 1561). One curious feature
of Hieber's lute is that the pegbox was
made from a single piece of wood.

The body of this lute has attractive
proportions and the instrument is
comfortable to hold.