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About the Liuto forte

  • Liuto forte – A Lute for the 21st Century
  • “Guitar-Lute“ or “Authentic“ Lute
  • Historical Liuti forti
  • Research
  • Single or double strings?
  • Sound
  • Stringing on the Liuto forte
  • Fingertips or nails?
  • The Belly
  • Fine Tuning
  • The Rose
  • Fixed or tied-on Frets?
  • Traditional and geared pegs
  • The Nut
  • The Fingerboard
  • The Bridge
  • Playing Position
  • Playing Technique
  • About the New Lute, or Liuto forte
  • Prospects

Early History

  • Lute and Guitar – a Dilemma?
  • Lute and Guitar in the Twentieth Century
  • Why the lute died out
  • Original instruments – original sound?
  • The stringing of historical lutes
  • Can the Rift between Spanish Guitar and Lute still be bridged?
  • Distinction in the Sound of the Lute, the Early Romantic Guitar and the Spanish Guitar
  • Methods of Construction of Lute and Guitar compared
  • The Guitar’s limited Bass Range
  • Less is More – the limits and horizons of the classical guitar
  • Franz Bathioli
  • Eduardo Fernández

The Nut

The passage from the neck to the peg box of the liuto forte is on a sharper angle than that of a guitar. To hinder the noise of friction while tuning, the grooves in the nut which hold the wound strings are fitted with gold brass or high-grade steel.