Roosebeck Lute Guitar

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Lute-Guitar, Nylon, Rosewood, Gear Tuners, Double Bowl-Shaped Back







The Roosebeck double bowl back 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, with a twist. The double 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 bowl is made of sheesham rosewood (Dalbergia sissoo) that affords a warm, mellow tone.

European spruce is used for the lute-guitar's 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. Most exciting is that the soundboard bracing pattern follows bracing used in world-famous Kohno classical guitars.

The mahogany neck has a shape is similar to a classical guitar with a 51mm (2 inch) wide nut of ebony. The top of the peg box features a woman's head that's carved on the top. Using standard nylon classical guitar strings, this lute-guitar is tuned just like an ordinary guitar: E, B, G, D, A, E. 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. The lute-guitar comes outfitted with smooth-operating gold tuners that have black ebonized tuning key buttons.

The overall length of this Roosebeck lute-guitar is 40 ?" and the scale length is 25 3/8" (similar to a normal guitar). This instrument also features a satin lacquer finish.

Country of Origin: Pakistan
Features:
? Overall length is 40 1/2"
? Scale length is 25 3/8"
? European solid spruce soundboard
? Double bowl-shaped body

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