Lute-making
Summer Workshops
There certainly won’t be a workshop in 2012 but I don’t entirely rule out further workshops, perhaps making a bass viol. If you are interested, please do me,
We are taking a breather from these summer workshops as the Lute Society now has an example of every major lute type for hire to members.
The Workshop
The central idea of these workshop courses has been to work together as a group to produce a lute for the English Lute Society to use as a hire instrument. Each year a different original instrument is chosen to make. No previous experience is necessary and each course member was able to try out, and contribute to, each of the processes involved in making the lute.
Previous workshops, where we have made fourteen different instruments for the Lute Society, were great fun, with a nice lute resulting from each week’s work. So I know it can be done! If you’d like to get a flavour of what previous years’ courses were like, click on these links:
1999, where we made a 6 course renaissance lute
2000, where we made a 13 course German baroque lute.
2001, where we made a 14 course theorbo
2002, where we made a 6 course bass lute
2003, where we made an 11 course baroque lute
2005, where we made a 7 course tenor lute.
2006, where we made a 14 course liuto attiorbato
2007, where we made a 6 course mandora
2008, where we made a medieval lute and gittern
2009, where we made two lutes for the Norfolk schools project
2010, where we made a 12 course double-headed lute
2011, where we made a 13 course triple pegbox baroque lute
Copyright 2012 by David Van Edwards