lute from Creta.19 .

The modern Cretan lute, manufacture few years now from me, but also other musik instrumend makers.
The lady difference from the classic Cretan lute, they is in the bridge, that you manufacture and it functions, as in acoustic guitar.
Different also they is the peghead and the placement of tuning machines.
The body of this lute, (is smaller than the body of classic Cretan lute),constitutes of 42 staves, made of Epony.
Lute neck, they is from bass-wood, with against
azope-wood, and exterior investment, root of a olive.
The soundboard is made of European spruce.
The fingerboard, bridge,rosette and the decoration of soundboard is made of ebony.
Bridges, above and under, from horn of water buffalo from Africa. .
The model of the tunning machines are Schaller Gold.
Tunning :

            G3 = 98 Hz

            G4 = 196 Hz
             
            D3 = 73,41 Hz

            D4 = 146,83 Hz
             
            Α3 = 110 Hz

            Α4 = 220 Hz
             
            E4 = 164,81 Hz

            E4 = 164,81 Hz

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