Dear all, Just a quick note to make you know that I am offering my wonderful six-course lute made by Francisco Hervás for sale. I honestly believe that this is an exceptionally good instrument and I am giving it away at a very discounted price for reasons that are too complicated and personal to publish here. If someone is seriously interested on the instrument and wants to hear the whole story, please contact me privately.
Kind regards, Alfonso This is the add as it will be posted in Wayne's "for sale" page: Six-course lute made by Francisco Hervás for sale This is a wonderfully sounding six-course lute in like new condition made by the Spanish master luthier Francisco Hervás in the fall of 2008. The model is based on iconographical sources of the early Sixteenth-Century since no original instruments from the time have survived unaltered. It has quite a robust soundboard and fewer than usual bars in imitation of the Mahler and Frei surviving instruments. These features make it sound extremely loud and yet refined. It projects exceptionally well in large halls. It is very balanced in sound and it is very easy to render polyphony clearly with it due to its definition and singing quality. It has two elegant inlays on each side of the soundboard, a feature often seem in Spanish and Italian lute iconography of the Renaissance. The soundboard has a half-edge in a kind of white wood that is almost invisible. This protects the instrument from cracks. The string length is 58cm long and can be successfully tuned either in G or A (440 or 415 MHz). The reason for selling it is that I hardly perform the early repertoire for six-course lute and I am much more in need of a 10-course instrument right now. The original price was 3750 . It comes with a made-to-measure Manzano black case also in mint condition. 2850 For more information contact Alfonso Marin at: [email protected] +31206705218 The instrument can be tried in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Here you can see more high resolution pictures if the lute: http://www.lutevoice.com/sale/Francisco_Hervas.html -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
