Dear collected wisdom, I have a lute, which is rebuilt the model MI54 in the Germanic National Museum.
http://objektkatalog.gnm.de/objekt/MI54 This is a shell and top of Laux Maler converted into a baroque lute. The instrument has the possibilities to play a baroque lute (13 course swan neck), but the sound is more of a renaissance lute (a bit "dry"). My question is whether this is generally the case. Do lutes that are converted from a renaissance lute to a baroque one (only changed the neck) sound like renaissance lutes and only those instruments that are designed as baroque lutes have the typical sound (resonance)? Thank you and best regards Dieter To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
