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Photography: Isabelle Sturm

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6-string medieval lute 'Memling'

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Top: spruce

Body: cherry

Neck and head: cherry

Fingerboard: hornbeam

Rose: pear and parchment

String length: 57,0 cm

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5-course medieval lute 'David'

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Top: spruce

Body: cherry

Neck and head: cherry

Fingerboard: hornbeam

Rose: pear and parchment

String length: 56,0 cm

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7- or 8-course renaissance lute

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Top: spruce

Body: cypres

Neck and head: ebony veneered 

Fingerboard: ebony

Rose: carved by hand in the top

String length: 58,5 cm

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10-course renaissance lute

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Top: spruce

Body: flamed maple

Neck and head: ebony veneered, silkwood inlay

Fingerboard: ebony

Rose: carved by hand in the top

String length: 63,0 cm

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6- or 7-course renaissance descant lute

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Top: spruce

Body: maple

Neck and body: ebony veneered

Fingerboard: ebony

Rose: carved by hand in the top

String length: 44,0 cm

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14 string chitarrone

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Top: spruce

Body: cypres

Neck: ebony and satinwood veneered

Fingerboard: ebony

Rose: carved by hand in the top

String length: 87,5 cm / 155,5 cm

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14 string theorbo

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Top: spruce

Body: cypres

Neck: ebony and birdseye maple veneered

Fingerboard: ebony

Rose: carved by hand in the top

String length: 75 cm / 150 cm

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English theorbo

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Top: spruce

Body: birdseye maple

Neck: ebony en birdseye maple veneer

Fingerboard: ebony

Rose: carved by hand in the top

String length petit jeu: 78,5 cm

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5-course baroque mandolino

After Antonio Stradivari

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Top: spruce

Body: flamed maple

Neck and head: maple

Fingerboard: ebony/plane

Rose: parchment

String length: 31,5 cm

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11-course baroque lute

After Wendelio Venere / Leonardo Tieffembrucker

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Top: spruce

Body: cherry wood

Neck and head: ebony and padouk veneered

Fingerboard: ebony

Rose: carved by hand in the top

String length: 71,5 cm

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13-course baroque lute

After J.C. Hoffmann

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Top: spruce

Body: flamed maple

Neck: ebony veneered

Fingerboard: ebony

Rose: carved by hand in the top

String length: 71,5 cm / 77 cm

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4-course renaissance cittern

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Top: spruce

Body: flamed maple and rosewood

Neck: maple

Fingerboard: rosewood

Rose: parchment and pearwood

String lenght: 44 cm

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Erwin Verdonck, Bremstraat 10, 9180 Moerbeke-Waas (B)

BTW BE 0772.765.148

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