"John Bailey (luthier) John Bailey (1931–2011) was a British luthier who made and repaired guitars and other stringed instruments during the 1960s revival of English folk music and beyond. Bailey lived in London until 1972 when he moved to Dartmouth in Devon. In the mid to late 1970s he moved back to London and for a time he was the Course Organiser of the Musical Instrument Repair Course (set up by Selwyn Jones, Paul Harvey and John Stone) at Merton College in Wimbledon. The demands of academic management however did not suit him and he was happiest when in the"
"Nicolas Lupot, Charles Macoutel, Charles Mennégand, and Pierre Silvestre. Nicola Utili (also known as Nicola da Castel Bolognese) (Ravenna, Italy, March 1888 – May 1962), beside traditional lute works, experimented the making of ""pear-shaped"" violins. The Jérôme-Thibouville-Lamy firm started making wind instruments around 1730 at La Couture-Boussey, then moved to Mirecourt around 1760 and started making violins, guitars, mandolins, and musical accessories. Luthier A luthier ( ) is someone who builds or repairs string instruments generally consisting of a neck and a sound box. The word ""luthier"" comes from the French word ""luth"", which means lute. A luthier was originally"
"of stringed instruments that are plucked or strummed, and those that are bowed. Since bowed instruments require a bow, the second category includes a subtype known as a bow maker or archetier. Luthiers may also teach string-instrument making, either through apprenticeship or formal classroom instruction. Important luthiers who specialized in the instruments of the lute family (lutes, archlutes, theorbos, vihuelas, etc.): and in modern times: Two important luthiers of the early 19th century connected with the development of the modern classical guitar are Louis Panormo and Georg Staufer. Antonio Torres Jurado is credited with developing the form of classical guitar"
"the neck. His way of tuning allowed a ""12-fret ‘ud tuning — which results ... 'double-octave' scale"", with 22 notes in each octave. History of lute-family instruments Lutes are stringed musical instruments that include a body and ""a neck which serves both has a handle and as a means of stretching the strings beyond the body"". The lute family includes not only ""short-necked plucked lutes"" such as the lute, oud, pipa, guitar, citole, gittern, mandore, rubab, and gambus and ""long-necked plucked lutes"" such as the banjo, tanbura, bağlama, bouzouki, veena, theorbo, archlute, pandura, sitar, setar, but also ""bowed instruments"" such"
"Guitar manufacturing Guitar manufacturing is the use of machines, tools, and labor in the production of electric and acoustic guitars. This phrase may be in reference to handcrafting guitars using traditional methods or assembly line production in large quantities using modern methods. Guitar manufacturing can also be broken into several categories such as body manufacturing and neck manufacturing, among others. Guitar manufacturing includes the production of alto, classical, tenor, and bass tuned guitars (with classical being the most widely used tuning). A luthier is a person who has learned the craft of making string instruments including guitars, generally on a"
"Classical guitar making A person who is specialized in the making of stringed instruments such as guitars, lutes and violins is called a luthier. In general one can distinguish three main aspects of guitar making: Fernando Sor has written that an instrument-maker """"should be an accurate draughtsman, understand the common principles of mechanics, the composition and resolution of forces, and the laws of vibrating strings and surfaces"""". This shaping of the wood is known as ""resonance plate tuning"" (or ""plate tuning""). It refers to a comprehensive tuning of the wood and bracing (its density, thickness, tension, sound-influence) to influence the"
"certainly dating back at least to the Middle Ages, most ""lăutari"" rapidly spend the fees from these wedding ceremonies on extended banquets for their friends and families over the days immediately following the wedding. The ""lăutari"" rarely used the blown instruments used in the peasant music, because of their limited capabilities, but there were some lăutari who used the flute (""fluier"") or the bagpipe (""cimpoi"") Today, the ""lăutari"" also used a lot of electric, electronic, and electroacoustic instruments: various keyboards (electronic accordions included), electric and electroacoustic guitars and basses, etc. The lăutari and their music had a great influence on"
"""sound aesthetic in guitars"" from other instruments (e.g., of the ""Golden Age of Acoustics""), which would open up the possibility of tonally competing with luthiers from earlier periods, instead of only ""visually"" imitating and copying them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_oxwnP1_68 Classical guitar making A person who is specialized in the making of stringed instruments such as guitars, lutes and violins is called a luthier. In general one can distinguish three main aspects of guitar making: Fernando Sor has written that an instrument-maker """"should be an accurate draughtsman, understand the common principles of mechanics, the composition and resolution of forces, and the laws of"
"History of lute-family instruments Lutes are stringed musical instruments that include a body and ""a neck which serves both has a handle and as a means of stretching the strings beyond the body"". The lute family includes not only ""short-necked plucked lutes"" such as the lute, oud, pipa, guitar, citole, gittern, mandore, rubab, and gambus and ""long-necked plucked lutes"" such as the banjo, tanbura, bağlama, bouzouki, veena, theorbo, archlute, pandura, sitar, setar, but also ""bowed instruments"" such as the Yaylı tambur, rebab, erhu, and entire family of viols and violins. Lutes apparently rose in ancient Mesopotamia prior to 3100 B.C."
"and beam work with metal connectors, or pole building framing. A luthier is someone who makes or repairs stringed instruments. The word luthier comes from the French word for lute, ""luth"". A log builder builds structures of stacked, horizontal logs including houses, barns, churches, fortifications, and more. A formwork carpenter creates the shuttering and falsework used in concrete construction. In Japanese carpentry, ""daiku"" is the simple term for carpenter, a ""miya-daiku"" (temple carpenter) performs the work of both architect and builder of shrines and temples, and a ""sukiya-daiku"" works on teahouse construction and houses. ""Sashimono-shi"" build furniture and ""tateguya"" do"
"of luthiers who build lutes for general sale, and there is a fairly strong, if small, second-hand market. Due to this fairly limited market, lutes are generally more expensive than mass-produced modern instruments: factory-made guitars and violins, for example, can be purchased more cheaply than low-end lutes, but at the highest level of modern instruments, guitars and violins tend to command higher prices than lutes. Unlike in the past there are many types of lutes encountered today: 5-course medieval lutes, renaissance lutes of 6 to 10 courses in many pitches for solo and ensemble performance of Renaissance works, the archlute"
"Experimental luthier Experimental luthiers are luthiers who take part in alternative stringed instrument manufacturing (such as the guitar or violin) or create original string instruments altogether. Notable experimental luthiers include Yuri Landman, Bradford Reed, and Hans Reichel. The Gittler guitar is an experimental designed guitar created by Allan Gittler (1928–2003). Gittler realized that sentimental design references to acoustic guitars are unnecessary in an electronically amplified guitar, and designed his instrument with the objective of reducing the electric guitar to the most minimal functional form possible. He made 60 guitars in New York in the mid-1970s to early 1980s. In the"
"instrument, the lute produces a relatively quiet sound. The player of a lute is called a ""lutenist"", ""lutanist"" or ""lutist"", and a maker of lutes (or any similar string instrument, or violin family instruments) is referred to as a ""luthier"". The words ""lute"" and ""oud"" possibly derive from Arabic ""al-ʿoud"" (- literally means ""the wood""). It may refer to the wooden plectrum traditionally used for playing the oud, to the thin strips of wood used for the back, or to the wooden soundboard that distinguished it from similar instruments with skin-faced bodies. Henry George Farmer considers the similitude between """
"(both music notation and tabulature (""tab"") are used for lute). As a small instrument, the lute produces a relatively quiet sound. Medieval lutes were 4- or 5-course instruments, plucked using a quill as a plectrum. There were several sizes, and by the end of the Renaissance, seven different sizes (up to the great octave bass) are documented. Song accompaniment was probably the lute's primary function in the Middle Ages, but very little music securely attributable to the lute survives from the era before 1500. Medieval and early-Renaissance song accompaniments were probably mostly improvised, hence the lack of written records. In"
"common ancestor via diverging evolutionary paths. The lute is used in a great variety of instrumental music from the Medieval to the late Baroque eras and was the most important instrument for secular music in the Renaissance. During the Baroque music era, the lute was used as one of the instruments which played the ""basso continuo"" accompaniment parts. It is also an accompanying instrument in vocal works. The lute player either improvises (""realizes"") a chordal accompaniment based on the figured bass part, or plays a written-out accompaniment (both music notation and tabulature (""tab"") are used for lute). As a small"
"of a lute guitar works in the same manner as a modern guitar bridge, but also serves as a decorative piece made in various shapes, sizes, and styles, often elaborately carved, for example, ending in swirls on each side. Lute guitar A lute guitar or German lute (, less commonly a ""lutar"" (modern Turkish), ""gui-lute"" or ""gittar"") is a stringed musical instrument, common in Germany from around 1850. The instrument has a regular six-stringed guitar setup on a lute bowl, however there are many theorboed variants with up to 11 strings. (see ) The instrument is associated with the Wandervogel"
"his court, including Moorish musicians. By the fourteenth century, lutes had disseminated throughout Italy and, probably because of the cultural influence of the Hohenstaufen kings and emperor, based in Palermo, the lute had also made significant inroads into the German-speaking lands. Medieval lutes were 4- or 5-course instruments, plucked using a quill as a plectrum. There were several sizes, and by the end of the Renaissance, seven different sizes (up to the great octave bass) are documented. Song accompaniment was probably the lute's primary function in the Middle Ages, but very little music securely attributable to the lute survives from"
"early days of the early music movement, many lutes were constructed by available luthiers, whose specialty was often classical guitars. Such lutes were heavily built with construction similar to classical guitars, with fan bracing, heavy tops, fixed frets, and lined sides, all of which are anachronistic to historical lutes. As lutherie scholarship increased, makers began constructing instruments based on historical models, which have proven lighter and more responsive instruments. Lutes built at present are invariably replicas or near copies of those surviving historical instruments that are in museums or private collections. Many are custom-built, but there is a growing number"
"guitars is a time and labor-intensive method of production. Some common tools used by luthiers today are a Band saw, Drill Press, Table Saw, Stationary Sander, Jointer, C Clamps, Sanding Board, Column Sander, Power Planer, Dovetail Saw, Scraper blades, Hand Files, Router, and Sand Paper. The majority of material comprising a modern guitar is wood. Typical woods used for the body and neck of a guitar today are Mahogany, Ash, Maple, Basswood, Agathis, Alder, Poplar, Walnut, Spruce, and holly. Woods from around the world are also incorporated into modern acoustic and electric guitars. Some of these exotic tone woods include"
"of Baroque works, 11-course lutes in d-minor tuning for 17th-century French, German and Czech music, 13/14-course d-minor tuned German Baroque Lutes for later High Baroque and Classical music, theorbo for basso continuo parts in Baroque ensembles, gallichons/mandoras, bandoras, orpharions and others. Lutenistic practice has reached considerable heights in recent years, thanks to a growing number of world-class lutenists: Rolf Lislevand, Hopkinson Smith, Paul O'Dette, Christopher Wilke, Andreas Martin, Robert Barto, Eduardo Egüez, Edin Karamazov, Nigel North, Christopher Wilson, Luca Pianca, Yasunori Imamura, Anthony Bailes, Peter Croton, Xavier Diaz-Latorre. Singer-songwriter Sting has also played lute and archlute, in and out of"
"Lute guitar A lute guitar or German lute (, less commonly a ""lutar"" (modern Turkish), ""gui-lute"" or ""gittar"") is a stringed musical instrument, common in Germany from around 1850. The instrument has a regular six-stringed guitar setup on a lute bowl, however there are many theorboed variants with up to 11 strings. (see ) The instrument is associated with the Wandervogel countercultural movement in Germany in the first half of the 20th century. The name ""German lute"" is sometimes also used for the waldzither, for both gaining the status of a national instrument in the early 20th century. The headstock"
"is the ""violin shop"", which, despite its name, often sells various violin family instruments (violin, viola, cello and often double bass, and the bows, strings, rosin, chinrests, and other accessories used with these instruments). Violin shops are often operated by luthiers (violinmakers) who make violin family instruments and bows for sale. Luthiers also do maintenance and repairs on violin family instruments and bows. According to ""PBS Newshour"", one US violinmaker who sells his instruments is combining his extensive knowledge of centuries-old violin-building techniques with 2010s-era technology such as ""CT scans"" and ""3D lasers"", which are giving him new insights into"
"Lute A lute () is any plucked string instrument with a neck (either fretted or unfretted) and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. More specifically, the term ""lute"" can refer to an instrument from the family of European lutes. The term also refers generally to any string instrument having the strings running in a plane parallel to the sound table (in the Hornbostel–Sachs system). The strings are attached to pegs or posts at the end of the neck, which have some type of turning mechanism to enable the"
"Waldzither The waldzither () is a plucked string instrument from Germany that came up around 1900 in Thuringia. It is a type of cittern that has nine steel strings in five courses. Different types of waldzither come in different tunings, which are generally open tunings as usual in citterns. The most common type has the tuning C3*G3 G3*C4 C4*E4 E4*G4 G4. Producers of the waldzither attempted to establish it as a national instrument of Germany in the first half of the 20th century, when more complicated instruments were hard to get and to afford. Martin Luther was popularly said to"
"Miller also teaches recorders and other instruments at numerous workshops throughout the Southeast United States. Lauda Musicam is a community-based organization, and is one of the largest early music performing groups in the United States. Instruments commonly used in the ensemble are replicas of instruments in use during the renaissance period (ca. 1400–1600): recorder, viol, sackbut, cornetto, crumhorn, cornamuse, lute, keyless flute, harpsichord, small harp, percussion. Lauda Musicam of Atlanta Lauda Musicam of Atlanta is one of the largest musical ensembles performing early music in the United States. Lauda Musicam has roots as the early music ensemble-in-residence at St. Bartholomew's"
"long neck. The European lute and the modern Near-Eastern ""oud"" descend from a common ancestor via diverging evolutionary paths. The lute is used in a great variety of instrumental music from the Medieval to the late Baroque eras and was the most important instrument for secular music in the Renaissance. During the Baroque music era, the lute was used as one of the instruments which played the ""basso continuo"" accompaniment parts. It is also an accompanying instrument in vocal works. The lute player either improvises (""realizes"") a chordal accompaniment based on the figured bass part, or plays a written-out accompaniment"
"(acoustic, electric and nylon-string classical), bass guitar, sitar, zither, cuatro, hurdy-gurdy, lyre and lap harp as well as occasional keyboards and gamelan instruments. Cawood also specialises in a variety of lutes – the Greek bouzouki and tzouras; the Arabian oud; the Turkish cümbüş and bağlama (or saz); the Chinese pipa, liuqin and ruan (the latter in its tenor and bass ""zhongruan"" and ""daruan/moon lute"" variants); and the European lute. He should not be confused with the other London-based musician called Charlie Cawood (who leads the acid/roots rock project Time Space Reality Band). Even before graduation, Cawood was heavily involved in"
"perform medieval music include the early flute, which was made of wood and which did not have any metal keys or pads. Flutes of this era could be made as a side-blown or end-blown instrument; the wooden recorder and the related instrument called the gemshorn; and the pan flute. Medieval music used many plucked string instruments like the lute, mandore, gittern and psaltery. The dulcimers, similar in structure to the psaltery and zither, were originally plucked, but became struck by hammers in the 14th century after the arrival of new technology that made metal strings possible. The bowed lyra of"
"is a dulcimer played using a pair of bamboo mallets rubberised on one end. Besides hitting the strings with the rubberised ends, the mallets can also be turned over to create a sharper note (this technique is called 反竹 (""fanzhu"")). Some songs even require the player to hold the mallets vertically and use the other end or even using the player hands to pluck. It is a versatile instrument capable of playing rapid running notes or arpeggios. The ""liuqin"" is a soprano range lute. It looks similar to the ""pipa"" but smaller with two sound holes on each side of"
"Sven Scholander. Swedish lute The Swedish lute () is a musical instrument developed from the early cittern, with a theorbo'ed neck with several bass strings running offset from the fretboard. The modern Swedish lute generally has six strings over the fretboard, and four or more free-running strings. Prominent among early developers of the Swedish lute was Matthias Petter Kraft, who in the latter half of the 18th century built the lute played by the famous Swedish musician and composer Carl Michael Bellman. Aside from Swedish musicians, the American folk musician Richard Dyer-Bennet also performed on the instrument, having studied in"
"Swedish lute The Swedish lute () is a musical instrument developed from the early cittern, with a theorbo'ed neck with several bass strings running offset from the fretboard. The modern Swedish lute generally has six strings over the fretboard, and four or more free-running strings. Prominent among early developers of the Swedish lute was Matthias Petter Kraft, who in the latter half of the 18th century built the lute played by the famous Swedish musician and composer Carl Michael Bellman. Aside from Swedish musicians, the American folk musician Richard Dyer-Bennet also performed on the instrument, having studied in Sweden under"
"additional five to seven courses are tuned generally scalewise below them. Thus the 13-course lute played by composer Sylvius Leopold Weiss would have been tuned , or with sharps or flats on the lower 7 courses appropriate to the key of the piece. Modern lutenists tune to a variety of pitch standards, ranging from A = 392 to 470 Hz, depending on the type of instrument they are playing, the repertory, the pitch of other instruments in an ensemble and other performing expediencies. No attempt at a universal pitch standard existed during the period of the lute's historical popularity. The"
"music. She has sung in English, German, Spanish, Romanian and Esperanto. Dusepo has also worked as a sound engineer and producer for other artists, a radio host and a luthier. Dusepo Jo Dusepo, better known simply as Dusepo is a luthier, multi-instrumentalist musician, ethnomusicologist, composer, radio host, sound engineer and producer from London, United Kingdom. Since November 2014, she has also been a radio host on K2K Radio in Kilburn, west London. Jo Dusepo has worked as a luthier since 2008, and specialises in world and historical stringed instruments. Many of her earlier music 2006–2010 was ambient, electronic music and"