Viola da mano - Soneto, by Enrríquez de Valderrábano

The first outing for Luteshop's first viola da mano. Pear and cypress back, pear neck and pegbox, plum fingerboard, boxwood edging. Find more images and audio of this instrument and its construction on our website.
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[@bearshield7138]

so wonderful

[@callenclarke371]

Exquisite.

[@patrigkernoa3628]

Bravo au luthier, bravo au luthiste!

[@stephenbaguley5699]

beautifully made instrument,especially being a first. Also great playing.

[@hughshikarii]

sounding good!

[@DuncanMidwinter]

beautiful

[@TheBlues088]

Live long!

[@romuloVG]

so charming!

[@danielolopesbarros7259]

What istruments

[@ulricus1]

what is the tuning of this instrument?

[@luteshop]

Like the lute, fourths with a major third in the middle. This one is tuned with the top string at E, so it is exactly like a modern guitar except that the third string is tuned to F# rather than G.

[@eduardoussia4129]

Beautiful, but the name of this spanish instrument is vihuela de mano. S. XVI. Gracias.

[@luteshop]

Muchas gracias Eduardo. The vihuela de mano seems to have usually had a flat peghead, whereas the Italian viola da mano seems to have a pegbox like this one. You can see the story of this instrument, and the engraving on which it is based, at: luteshop.co.uk/projects/violadamano/

[@SimonSimon-rn3tm]

This is a VIHUELA da mano isn't it?

[@luteshop]

It's a vihuela de mano in Spanish and a viola da mano in Italian. This one is based on an Italian engraving.