Just needs to be Alembicized.

Very cool, I enjoyed that, thanks for posting!

Super 

beautiful instrument

Quote from: David Houck on January 11, 2019, 07:16:49 PM
Just needs to be Alembicized.

I was just thinking... it took the same inventive mindset to make a thing like that, whether late 16th Century Italy, or a mid 20th Century California counterpart. Solving little problems with artistic solutions. That's what they were doing. 

What is that, about a 78" scale??  Yeah, you probably won't want your theorboist to be dancing around much on stage.

The first college I attended, finding themselves in financial trouble, tried to negotiate a deal to share the campus with the School Of The Lute (which taught/teaches both playing and lutherie); they came to do a concert & played many varieties of lute - but nothing like that thing!  Way cool - but I'm thinking a harp guitar is easier to get across town on a bus.

Peter (Who has yet to find a spell-checker that recognizes "luthier" or lutherie")

I saw one of these in action at a Tafelmusik show here in Toronto a couple of years ago. I had no idea before that that such a thing even existed. Fascinating. Thanks Dave!

Probably much more $ than an Alembic too...

Quote from: darnellbass on February 27, 2019, 07:32:16 PM
Probably much more $ than an Alembic too ...

Especially the early ones with the green LEDs.

One of those lutes appeared in a tv ad campain for Royal London Insurance.
Starts at 0:47

Talk about neck dive!

Bill, tgo