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GermanyBernd2022-04-18 19:27:22 · 4yNo. 146538reply
I'm in the train home and my aunt came to one of the stations midway between and borrowed me a lute.
 
A REAL OLD LUTE ahhh my heart is beating faat but I can not play it until I arrive home.
GermanyBernd2022-04-18 21:59:29 · 4yNo. 146542reply
I'm in love.
 
Sadly it has a few cracks... it is over 100 years old after all and was just hanging around in a living room most of the time.
 
Tomorrow I will see my luthier of trust and ask how much it costs to fix.
It also needs new strings, the current ones are terribly out of tune.
SwitzerlandBernd2022-04-18 22:08:05 · 4yNo. 146544reply
your aunt is very very based
GermanyBernd2022-04-18 22:09:30 · 4yNo. 146545reply
i know thanks i love my family
SwitzerlandBernd2022-04-18 22:16:24 · 4yNo. 146548reply
Are you born in a musicians family ?
GermanyBernd2022-04-18 22:22:05 · 4yNo. 146549reply
yes, ~30% of my close relatives earn their bread with music and pretty much everyone else except for one or two zoomers and my mum play an instrument as a hobby
 
I suck though
GermanyBernd2022-04-18 23:54:24 · 4yNo. 146555reply
This is how it sounds now.
Will post again tomorrow once I got new strings for it. These are likely a few decades old.
SwitzerlandBernd2022-04-19 07:41:17 · 4yNo. 146574reply
peaceful, post more
RussiaBernd2022-04-19 16:35:06 · 4yNo. 146614reply
Based I wish I had a luthe
GermanyripBernd2022-04-19 21:35:38 · 4yNo. 146639reply
This is supposed to be the maple leaf rag.
 
I put on new strings this evening and the intonation of the lute is fixed but I think the new strings sound a lot worse than the old ones.
Perhaps the bass strings were still made of real guts...? They were so dirty and black that I thought its just usual classic guitar strings but seems like I just three away something I won't get back easily.
 
 
I think the sound in >>146555 has a lot more soul, please share onions.
RussiaBernd2022-04-20 05:18:56 · 4yNo. 146655reply
It sounds like a an usual guitar
GermanyBernd2022-04-20 06:10:27 · 4yNo. 146656reply
yeah, right? the difference is very small now, i really need to get more suitable strings to get back the magical lutesound. Cheap nylon sucks.
 
It is a a "guitarlute" anyway, those were built a lot around 1910-20 in Germany. The big differences to earlier lutes is that it is tuned like the guitar, doesn't have the kinked neck for the tuning mechanics.
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