Eleven Course Lutes

1)  11 course Warwick Frei
    Low pitch f '.
    String length: 70.5 cm.
Based on the Hans Frei lute in the Warwick County Museum, England.   Back of 11 curly maple ribs.  Neck and peg-box ebony-veneered; fingerboard, points and edge binding of ebony.  Chanterelle tuner on the peg-box.

2)  11 course 'Small' Frei
    Low pitch f '.
    String length: 67.7 cm.
Based on the smaller of the two Hans Frei lutes in the Kunsthistorischesmuseum in Vienna (C34).   This lute was built in Bologna c.1550 as a 6 course (or possibly a 7 course) lute, and converted, probably in France c.1650, to an 11 course lute (its present state).  I have incorporated details from the 1690 painting of Charles Mouton by Francois de Troy into my design.
Back of 11 curly maple ribs.  Neck and peg-box veneered with ebony.  Fingerboard, points and edge binding of ebony.  Chanterelle tuner on the peg-box.