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14/10/2025

Renaissance Lutes

This page contains lutes from the 16th and 17th century.
During this period, the number of courses increased from 6 to 7, 8, and eventually 10.


Types of lutes:

6-, 7- and 8-Course Renaissance Lutes 10-Course Renaissance Lutes 6- and 7-Course Treble Lutes 6- to 10-Course Bass Lutes

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6-, 7- and 8-Course Renaissance Lutes

Student Lute, my own design

Simply decorated, but with the same excellent sound qualities as the following lutes.

String length 60 cm, 9 ribs.


Price: € 2000.-

7-course Renaissance lute,
my own design, oriented at "Venere"

String length 61.5 cm.

9 ribs of cedre with ebony-lines.

Neck and pegbox veneered with ebony, pegs of strawberry tree, fingerboard of ebony, table of high-Alpine spruce.


Price: € 2750.-

"Georg Gerle Furstlicher Durchleuchtigkeit zu Ynsprugg"

String length 60 cm, 11 ribs.


Price: € 3100.-

"Giovanni Hieber"

String length 60 cm, 11 ribs.


Price: € 3100.-

"In Padua Vvendelio Venere de Leonardo Tiefembrucker"

String length 60 cm, 13 ribs.


Price: € 3150.-

"Wolfgang Wolf"

String length 60 cm, 15 ribs.


With construction level as shown:

Price: € 3250.-

"Hans Frei"

String length 62 cm, 11 ribs.


Price: € 3150.-

10-Course Renaissance Lutes

"In Padua Vvendelio Venere de Leonardo Tiefembrucker"

String length 66-68 cm, 13 ribs.


Price: € 3600.-

Based on "Magno Stegher in Venetia 1598"


String length 66 cm, 13 ribs:

Price: € 3600.-


String length 68 cm, 15 ribs:

Price: € 3700.-

"Giovanni Hieber"

String length 63 cm, 11 ribs.


Price: € 3450.-

"In Padua Vvendelio Venere de Leonardo Tiefembrucker"

String length 63 cm, 13 ribs.


Price: € 3450.-

"Hans Frei"

String length 66 cm, 11 ribs.


Price: € 3100.-

Body after "Raillich 1669"

String length 66 cm, 21 ribs.


Price: € 3750.-

6- and 7-Course Treble Lutes

"W.E." (Wendelin Tieffenbrucker's workshop?) around 1600

String length 44 cm, 6 or 7 courses, 13 ribs.


Price: € 2450.-

"W.E." (Wendelin Tieffenbrucker's workshop?) around 1600

String length 44 cm, 6 or 7 courses, 19 ribs.


Price: € 2600.-

6- to 10-Course Bass Lutes

"Laux Maler"

String length 74 cm, 6 to 10 courses, 9 ribs.


Depending on the number of courses:

Price: € 3450.- to € 3550.-

"Magno Stegher in Venetia 1598"

String length 74 cm, 6 to 10 courses, 27 ribs.


Depending on the number of courses:

Price: € 3750.- to € 3850.-

"Michielle Harton Padova 1599"

String length 78 cm, 6 to 10 courses, 35 ribs.


Depending on the number of courses:

Price: € 3900.- to € 4000.-

"Magno Dieffopruchar a Venetia 1604"
"Matthias Fux/­Röm.Kays.May.­HoffLautenmacher in Wienn. 1685"

String length 72 cm, 27 ribs.


Depending on the number of courses:

Price: € 3850.- to € 3950.-

Pictures of the original lute in Kremsmünster by Andreas Usel

"Magno Stegher in Venetia 1600",
large bass lute

String length 89 cm, 6 to 10 courses, 43 ribs.


Depending on the number of courses:

Price: € 4150.- to € 4250.-

Body after "Martinus Harz / Rome 1665"

String length 68-72 cm, 6 to 10 courses, 43 ribs.


Depending on the number of courses:

Price: € 4150.- to € 4250.-

"Magno Dieffopruchar a Venetia 1609"

String length 67 cm, 6 to 10 courses, 37 ribs.


Depending on the number of courses:

Price: € 4050.- to € 4150.-

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