A Showcase of Some Recent Projects We Have Completed in the Workshop
Eight Course Venere
There is nothing better than an eight course Venere model lute and here is one that we completed for a customer in August of 2016 with a cherry back, cherry neck and head, cherry fingerboard with rosewood edges and Englemann spruce front.
Hoffmann Lute
We don't get an order for a Hoffmann model lute very often, so it is always a pleasure to finish one and get another out in the world. The tone of these instruments is sweet and lingering; a beautiful complement to Baroque lute music. This instrument has a lacewood back with holly spacers and a figured Italian Alpine spruce front. The neck is spruce with ebony veneer neck and fingerboard and the head is maple blackened with milk paint. Completed August of 2016.
Sellas Wedding Cake
A customer ordered a Sellas wedding cake guitar rose for an instrument that is being made. The request for the rose to be made out of cherry wood was unique, but Jake rose to the challenge resulting is a stunning decoration unlike any other.
Liuto Attiorbato
A customer came to us with specific needs for an archlute. Together, we were able to incorporate the features he wanted by using a Venere body scaled to a 61cm string length and divided into 21 shaded yew ribs. The extension is 100cm and double courses are used throughout, except for the top string.
A liuto attiorbato with a Venere model, 61cm body and 120cm extension, fourteen double courses. Twenty one shaded yew ribs, Italian Alpine figured spruce front, ebony veneered neck and extension.
Extension of the instrument.
Back of the extension.
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Hand-made in the USA by Gamut Music, Inc., a leader in the revival of early music strings and instruments. Gut strings are not intended to be used with fine tuners or string adjusters, and those devices should be removed before installing the gut string on the instrument.
All Gamut Academie strings (pure gut and gut/metal-wound) are made with beef serosa unless they specifically say "Sheep Gut." All pure gut Tricolore violin and viola strings are made with sheep gut; gut/metal-wound Tricolore and all Red Diamond strings are made with beef serosa.
Gamut gut string gauges are approximate (≈) diameter. Meaning, that while a ≈0.60mm string is polished in the workshop to a diameter of 0.60mm, changes in ambient humidity, temperature, shipping, and storage conditions can cause to string to expand or contract slightly.
Gimped gut strings and custom gauged equal tension strings are gauged with the equivalent-gauge (=) system. This means that the gauge listed, such as =1.50mm, indicates that the string is approximately equal in weight to a plain gut string of that diameter. Of course, because the wire is much heavier than gut, the string will be much thinner than a plain gut string.
More information about Gamut gut strings, string types, gauges, and string tensions can be found on our FAQ/Articles page. Not finding an answer to your question? Please contact us directly: support@gamutmusic.com.