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MATEUS LUTES

Recent Instruments

7C Renaissance Lute after Laux Maler
65cm string length

6 Course Fluted Back Vihuela
East Indian Rosewood (Dalbergia Latifolia) 60cm string length

6 Course Lute after Tieffenbrucker 595mm string length

14 Course Liuto Attiorbato 67-120cm_Back

14 Course Liuto Attiorbato 67-120cm

4 Course Renaissance Guitar 55cm vaulted back in Morado

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14 C Swan neck Baroque lute 72.5103 cm for Evangelina Mascardi 2020

7 Course Renaissance Lute in G - 58 cm

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14 C Liuto Attiorbato with Ziricote back 59-95 cm

8C English Shaded Yew alto lute
(Own model after various 16C models, 59.5 cm Mensur)

5 Course Baroque guitar after Alexandre Voboam, Paris 1680

(Boston Museum of Fine Arts)

10-course "Double Luth" - d'apres Marin Mersenne (after M. Mersenne)
(8 stopped courses at 60-62cm, 89cm 9th and 10th courses)

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6 Course Medieval lute after Gerard David
56 cm string length, three level rose and small cathedral window rose

The No Darkwoods Lute – A 7 Course Mateus model
62 cm string length

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"7-C viola da mano" with Ziricote, multi-piece back and sides, solid maple neck, 60 cm string length

"Theorbo 76/140 cm" 15 rib contrasting rosewood back with triple fillets spacers ebony veneered neck and pegbox with triple fillets edging

"5-C Medieval lute" 56 cm string length , Gabon ebony (blackest black) alternating with tiger maple back. Checkered fingerboard. Double rose cathedral windows

"7-C renaissance lute based on Venere with a low angled pegbox,( facilitating the performance of repertoire such as Spinacino's" Adieu mes Amours") otherwise easily playable on a Viola da Mano. 60 cm string length, small curl, aged maple ( like shimmering sands under water) used for back, neck and pegbox, with continuous triple fillets throughout back, neck and pegbox. All covered in a golden amber oil varnish

Traveling Musician 10-C Bass Lute/ 12-C single strung theorbo 76 cm/ 83 cm string length. Bolivian rosewood/birds eye maple 15 rib back

6 Course Vihuela in G. 60cm Brazilian Walnut back, sides, and neck. 20 year old Austrian Spruce top

8-course lute own model Brotherhood of Maple #2 (Birds eye/Quilted Maple, American) 61cm mensur

11-course lute after Laux Maler. 67cm mensur. Built for Miguel Yisrael of Paris, France

Triple Swan neck, 13-Course Baroque Lute

11-Course Lute after Tielke 70cm Mensur, built for Miguel Yisrael ("Brotherhood of Maple") - tiger/birds' eye maple back

Tiger maple Vihuela,

58 cm mensur

8 Course Venere, 60 cm mensur

Vihuela/ Viola da Mano, 58 cm mensur
This instrument is built using 50 year old German maple for the back and sides
and 12 year old Austrian spruce for the top

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