c. 1935 German Guitar Lute

c. 1935 German Guitar Lute SOLD

Solid Spruce Top and 11 piece Maple back

45mm nut (1  3/4") 615mm scale length

Scalloped frets and a dead straight neck--Ebony Fingerboard, French polish, non original gears-new bone nut, made here at FFSI.

   This rare instrument has an enormous volume and a good balance and high quality of tone. It weighs 2 pounds and 4 ounces. This lightness gives it the resonance.

   This great instrument has a fraudulent label. It purports to be a 1805 Johann Martin Hofman guitar lute. As my colleague, Richard Bruné, says: "The least reliable indentification is the label". Those who have a first edition 1904 or later edition "Die Geigen und Lautenmacher" violin reference book by Willibald Lutgendorf will notice the label is cut out of that reference book and glued in some decades ago. The year 1805 with the 5 handwritten is right out of the book.

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