Description
This instrument has been SOLD.
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The original instrument was made by Martin Hoffmann, with the neck added by his son Joh. Christian Hoffmann, in Leipzig, Germany. The date of the construction is a little uncertain, but the instrument seems to have been made around 1670, and is now in the Germanisches National Museum in Nuremberg, item number MI 245. The stringing is arranged with eight courses on the fingerboard at 69.5cm and five courses on an extension at 97cm. Although the instrument pictured here has a plain-backed extension, the back of the extension on the original is richly carved with floral figures.
The cross-section of this instrument is slightly deeper than half round, which gives the tone of instrument a silvery, introspective quality having shimmering treble notes and deep basses.
The original instrument has 9-figured maple ribs with ebony spacers.
Instrument Specifications:
- String Length: 69.50cm (27 1/4")
- 13-Course Lute
- Overall Length: 122cm (48")
- Body Length: 48.50cm (19")
- Neck Length: 29.50cm (11 3/4")
- Body Width: 31cm (12 1/4")
- Body Depth: 17.50cm (6 3/4")
- Ribs: Nine Ribs with Ebony Spacers
- Front: AAA Engelmann Spruce
- Rose: Pattern "A" Through "K"
- Neck: Spruce with Ebony Veneer
- Fingerboard: Ebony with Points
- Pegs: Rosewood, Boxwood, or Ebony
- End Button: To Match Pegs
- Nut: Bone
- Extension: Cared Maple Stained Black
- Strings: Nylon Top Strings and Octaves with Wound Nylon Basses
- Bridge: Maple with Ebony Top Plate
- Ebony Outlined Mother-of-Pearl or Ivory Heart at Bottom Front
- Ebony Front Edge Half Binding
- Custom Made Kingham Case
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