Description

This popular, affordable student lute from the Early Music Shop is made after original lutes by Hieber. It is an ideal instrument for a beginner and is highly recommended by our resident lute tutor Jacob Heringman.

Each instrument is individually set up and fully serviced by our luthier prior to despatch.

Pleaseto view our lute guide.

Watch a short clip of this lute in action (performed by Jacob Heringman)!

The 8 course lute is ideally suited for a beginner lutenist wanting to play a wide range of solo repertoire as well as lute-songs. It is also perfect for continuo playing!

Gold Lute Bundle

The gold lute bundle comes with this lute, a padded case, a tuner, a lute strap, a spare set of strings and a lute tutor book.

Specification:

Standard Tuning (Renaissance in g)

600mm String Length

Aquila Nylgut Strings

Made of Lacewood, Sitka (Spruce) and Walnut

Includes a Semi-Rigid Gig Case

Lute Tutor Book

One Year’s Free Membership to the UK’s Lute Society (new members only)
– including CDs by Jacob Heringman

8 Course Stringing Schedule – Aquila D d, F f, G g, C c, f f, a a, d’d’ g
(For spare strings, simply use the product codes below to search our website)

8th D – AQUL200D
8th d – AQUL94NG or AQUL88NG
7th F – AQUL165D
7th f – AQUL79NG or AQUL76NG
6th G – AQUL150D
6th g – AQUL70NG
5th C – AQUL108D or AQUL104D
5th c – AQUL52NG
4th f – AQUL82NG or AQUL100D
4th f – AQUL82NG or AQUL100D or AQUL40NG Octave
3rd a – AQUL64NG
3rd a – AQUL64NG
2nd d’ – AQUL48NG
2nd d’ – AQUL48NG
1st g – AQUL42NG or Pyramid PYR.45R

One Year’s Free Lute Society Membership.
The membership includes a new members pack with 100 pages of beginner’s music, annual journal, free gift CD and PDFs of the last two years’ magazines, then members receive quarterly Lute News magazine, each with a music supplement, and a quarterly e-zine, with further music to play, plus the year’s annual journal. Then there are invitations to our virtual meetings, on our Youtube channel, for members anywhere in the world to enjoy. We promise you won’t run out of music to play or interesting things to read about this wonderful instrument.

– including CDs by Jacob Heringman