Instruments
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Oud ('Shahed' model)
- Available with round or oval soundholes. Available with or without rosettes. Designed using spectral analysis to bring out extra harmonics and also to have a more comfortable body shape for longer playing.
- Scale length: 58.5cm. Also available with scale length of 60cm
- German/Alpine Spruce, European Cherry, European Ash, Swiss Pear, Apple, Olive, Sonokeling. Other wood choices available.
Medieval Lute
- Early Medieval lute, based on various iconographic sources of 1280-1450. 4 or 5 course. Available fretted or unfretted. The upper, smaller rose is available in round, diamond or lancet window shape.
- Scale length: 55cm.
- German/Alpine Spruce, European Cherry, European Sycamore, Apple, Boxwood. Other wood choices available.
Oud ('Damascus' model)
- Available with round or oval soundholes. Available with or without rosettes. Design based on the ouds of the famous Nahat family.
- Scale length: 58.5cm. Also available with scale length of 60cm
- German/Alpine Spruce, Sapele, European Oak, Swiss Pear, Wych Elm, Bog Oak, Sonokeling. Other wood choices available.
Baroque Mandolin
- Baroque mandolin. Available with 4, 5 or 6 courses of strings.
- Scale length: 35cm.
- German/Alpine Spruce, Norway Maple, Ovangkol, Boxwood. Other wood choices available.
Renaissance Lute
- Renaissance lute. Based on surviving examples by Georg Gerle, Hans Frei and others. 6 courses. Also available with 7 courses. For tuning in G or A.
- Scale length: 56cm.
- German/Alpine Spruce, European Ash, Wych Elm, Swiss Pear, Boxwood. Other wood choices available.
Barbat
- Iranian/Persian variant of the oud with longer neck and smaller body. Available with round or oval soundhole. Available with or without rosette.
- Scale length: 58.5cm. Also available with scale length of 60cm
- German/Alpine Spruce, Ovangkol, Goncalo Alves, Bog Oak, Black Palm. Other wood choices available.
Cremonese Mandolin or Brescian Mandolin
- Cremonese or Brescian mandolin. 4 single nylon or gut strings tuned in fifths (the same tuning as a Neapolitan mandolin). This type was espeiclaly popular between 1850-1930.
- Scale length: 35cm.
- German/Alpine Spruce, Norway Maple, Sapele, Ovangkol, Plum. Other wood choices available.
Renaissance Mandore
- Renaissance mandore. A small instrument which is the ancestor of the mandolin. Available with 4 or 5 single or doubled courses of strings.
- Scale length: Available with 35cm or 28cm scale length.
- German/Alpine Spruce, European Cherry, European Sycamore, London Plane, Boxwood. Other wood choices available.
Gittern
- Would have usually been carved from a single block, but is here built from ribs like a lute. Available with 3, 4 or 5 single or doubled courses of strings.
- Scale length: 44cm.
- German/Alpine Spruce, Ovangkol, Silver Birch, European Oak, Boxwood. Other wood choices available.
Colascione
- A long necked lute popular in Italy during the late renaissance and early baroque periods. Available with 2, 3 or 4 strings.
- Scale length: 80cm.
- German/Alpine Spruce, Norway Maple, European Walnut, Ovangkol, Boxwood. Other wood choices available.
Kwitra
- A traditional 4 course lute/oud played in north Africa, especially Morocco and Algeria. Transliterated from Arabic as Kwitra, Kouitra, Quitra and other spellings. Available in traditional re-entrant tuning, or oud-like tuning (shown in picture).
- Scale length: 58cm.
- German/Alpine Spruce, Ovangkol, London Plane, European Cherry, Wych Elm, Boxwood. Other wood choices available.
Oud Arbi or Andalusian Oud
- 4 course version of the Oud played in Al-Andalus and still played today in north Africa. Available with traditional re-entrant tuning or all fourths tuning.
- Scale length: 58cm.
- German/Alpine Spruce, Leopardwood, Field Maple, Sapele, Boxwood. Other wood choices available.
Zenne Oud
- Smaller bodied, shorter scale version of the oud.
- Scale length: 57cm.
- German/Alpine Spruce, European Sycamore, Wych Elm, Goncalo Alves, Silver Birch, London Plane, Boxwood. Other wood choices available.
Childen's Oud or Soprano Oud
- Smaller bodied, shorter scale version of the oud designed for children or as a higher-pitched oud. Can be tuned in high F tuning with standard C tuning oud strings.
- Scale length: 45cm.
- German/Alpine Spruce, European Sycamore, European Oak, London Plane, Wych Elm, Sonokeling. Other wood choices available.
Citole or Guitarra Latina
- A small medieval instrument with a distinctive body shape. Would have usually been carved from a single block, but is here built with bent sides. Available with 3, 4 or 5 single or doubled courses.
- Scale length: 46cm.
- German/Alpine Spruce, European Cherry, Swiss Pear, European Sycamore, Boxwood. Other wood choices available.
Vihuela de mano (Guitar style)
- Vihuela de mano (in Spanish) or Viola da mano (in Italian). Based on surviving instruments and iconography. Available with flat peghead with pegs from behind (as shown) or pegbox. Available with or without soundboard inlays. 6 courses.
- Scale length: 55cm
- German/Alpine Spruce, European Walnut, European Sycamore, Goncalo Alves, Leopardwood, Boxwood. Other wood choices available.
Vihuela de mano (Viol style)
- Vihuela de mano (in Spanish) or Viola da mano (in Italian). Based on iconography of vihuelas shaped like the viola da gamba. Available with pegbox (as shown) or flat peghead with pegs from behind. Available with or without soundboard inlays. 6 courses.
- Scale length: 55cm
- German/Alpine Spruce, European Sycamore, European Cherry, Apple, Boxwood. Other wood choices available.
Baroque Guitar
- Baroque guitar based on several surviving historical examples.
- Scale length: 60-65cm. Smaller sizes also available.
- German/Alpine Spruce, European Walnut, Norway Maple, Ovangkol, Boxwood. Other wood choices available.
Renaissance Guitar
- Renaissance guitar based on historical illustrations. Available with pegbox (as shown) or flat peghead with pegs from behind.
- Scale length: 50cm
- German/Alpine Spruce, European Sycamore, Sapele, Plum. Other wood choices available.
Jarana Jarocha
- Traditional Mexican rhythmic instrument related to the baroque guitar. Segunda size shown, with others also available. Requinto Jarocho also available. Available with wooden pegs or machine heads.
- Scale length: Segunda size (in picture) 50cm. Primera size 40cm. Terciera size 58cm. Requinto Jarocho 50cm.
- German/Alpine Spruce, Sapele, Light Meranti, European Beech, Ovangkol. Other wood choices available.
Ukulele or Cavaquinho
- Traditional Hawaiian instrument. Also available with heavier bracing as a Portuguese cavaquinho, and as a cak or cuk for Indonesian Keroncong music. Soprano size, with others also available. Available with wooden pegs or machine heads.
- Scale length: Sopano (in picture) 34cm. Concert 38cm. Tenor 43cm. Baritone 48cm. Cavaquinho 34cm.
- German/Alpine Spruce, European Walnut, European Sycamore, Ovangkol, . Other wood choices also available.
Viola De Cocho
- Traditional instrument from Mato Grosso, Brazil. Available with tied frets as picture, metal frets, or fretless. Also available with machine heads. Traditionally, this instrument has a small soundhole or no soundhole at all. Also available without soundhole.
- Scale length: 45cm
- German/Alpine Spruce, Wych Elm, Ovangkol, European Oak, European Walnut, Tamarind. Other wood choices also available.
Renaissance Cittern
- Renaissance cittern. Available with chromatic (as picture) or diatonic fretting. Available with 8 or 9 strings in 4 courses.
- Scale length: 40-42cm.
- German/Alpine Spruce, Norway Maple, London Plane, Wych Elm, European Oak, Boxwood. Other wood choices available.
Cithrinchen or Bell Cittern
- An instrument popular in Germany, Britain and the Netherlands during the late renaissance and baroque periods.
- Scale length: 36cm.
- German/Alpine Spruce, European Sycamore, Sapele, European Beech, Swiss Pear, Boxwood. Other wood choices available.
Modern Cittern or Irish Bouzouki
- Modern or Irish cittern. Available with 4 or 5 courses.
- Scale length: 60cm.
- German/Alpine Spruce, Sapele, Hard Maple, European Hornbeam, Boxwood. Other wood choices available.
Komuz
- A traditional instrument from Kyrgyzstan.
- Scale length: 58cm
- German/Alpine Spruce, Khaya, Light Meranti, European Ash, Boxwood. Other wood choices available.
Anglo-Saxon Lyre
- An Anglo-Saxon lyre based on the remains of one found in the Sutton Hoo ship burial, and other similar examples. It was also played in Northern Germany and in Scandinavia by the Vikings. Available with 5, 6 or 7 strings.
- Scale length: 43cm
- German/Alpine Spruce, European Alder, European Ash, European Cherry, Boxwood. Other wood choices available.