![]() ![]() Tuning: We recommend using the standard for classical guitar tuning: 1 (E4), 2 (B3), 3 (G3), 4 (D3), 5 (A2), 6 (E2). Tuning Pegs/Levers: There are 6 mechanical geared right angle tuning pegs/levers with a 14:1 ratio. Soundboard: The sound board is spruce and has 1 laser cut rosette sound hole Free Shipping.īody & Neck: The body is sheesham and varigated lacewood and neck is mahogany The guitar is outfitted with smooth-operating gold tuners with black ebonized tuning key buttons. If it is to be used for lute music, the 3rd string may be tuned a semi-tone down to F# to enable lute fingering. Using standard nylon classical guitar strings, it is tuned like a guitar in E4, B3, G3, D3, A2, E2 tuning. ![]() The top of the peg box has a woman's head carved on the top. The mahogany neck has a shape is similar to a classical guitar with a 51mm (2 inch) wide nut of bone. A lute is a stringed instrument, and was one of the most commonly played instruments of European music in the Renaissance era (1300-1600.) With its wooden and pear-shaped body, it looks like a. Most exciting is that the soundboard bracing pattern follows bracing used in world-famous Kohno classical guitars. The combination of the two offers a blended timbre as well as a desirable look.Įuropean spruce is used for the soundboard and, in keeping with the design of 16th-Century lutes, its soundhole is a carved rosette in an attractive geometric pattern which is cut into the soundboard itself and is not inlaid of different material. The dark-colored wood is sheesham rosewood that affords a warmer mellower tone. A member of the sycamore family, its timbre characteristics are similar to maple generally providing a brighter tone than rosewood. The bowl is made of two alternating woods: Lacewood is a light-colored hardwood that has color similar to maple and has distinctive rays that provide what is known as a "beeswing" pattern. In keeping with the character of a lute, the bowl-shaped body is achieved by edge-gluing together staves of uniformly thin hardwoods bent to a specific shape with no heavy internal bracing to retain its form. The Roosebeck lute-guitar is an attractive and lightweight instrument of a similar size and scale to a standard classical guitar but with a body like a lute. ![]()
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