The Lute's Progress,

Today, as promised, a brief description of making the Widhalm 'swan-neck' extension--the elegant, elongated double pegbox on the 13 ...

Hi everyone--hope you had a great summer.  Mine was fantastic--among many other adventures, the Lute Society of America Workshop was held in...

Hello friends, and welcome back to the lute blog.  It has been a long time since I last posted, and for those of you who once hung on my eve...

So, the bars are glued onto the underside of the belly...now what? Now things start to move along relatively quickly.  If lute making was ...

At the risk of stating the obvious, I have found that the work of making lutes consists largely of making things .  Cut a rose, carve a...