Interviews

• Interview with Robert Barto January/June 2003 in English
• Interview with Robert Barto January/June 2003 in Japanese
• Interview with Jacob Heringman August 2003 in English
• Interview with Crawford Young August 2003 in English
• Interview with Paul Odette November 2003 in English
• Interview with Jakob Lindberg March 2007 in English
• Interview with Ray Nurse January 28, 2008 via email and Skype

Review

• A review of A History of the Lute A review by me of A History of the Lute from Antiquity to the Renaissance by Douglas Alton Smith. A translation of this review appeared in the Japanese Lute Society Newsletter in 2003.

Lute societies

• The Lute Society (based in England, but worldwide)
• Lute Society of America Info, pictures and links about lutes
• The Belgian Lute Academy
• Czech Viola da Gamba and Lute society
• The Dutch Lute Society (Nederlandse Luitvereniging)
• The German Lute Society (Deutsche Lautengesellschaft)
• The Italian Lute Society (Società Italiana del Liuto)
• Lute Society of Japan The newest Japanese lute society. They seem to be active in bringing foreign lutenists over for concerts and masterclasses.
• The Japanese Lute & Guitar Society (The Lute and Early Guitar Society of Japan (LGS)) founded by Toyohiko Sato. Many links and other information provided by David van Ooijen
• The Swedish Guitar and Lute Society (Swedish language only), SGLS

Free lute Music

• Free lute tablature on the web List of links containing downloadable Tablature in Various formats (TAB, Fronimo, String Walker, MIDI, PDF, Ascii
• Rob MacKillop's mp3s of much of his playing of early fretted instruments

More lute related links

• Wayne Cripps' Lute Page Lots of pictures, links, general information about lutes and a list of lutes for sale here. Wayne also provides a home for the LuteNet mailing list.
• John Dowland MP3s, videos, scores, essays and more, all concerning one of the lute pantheon
• David Hill's lute cartoons lute cartoons
• Arto Wikla's Music Page A gazillion music links with emphasis on early music and lute and a string calculator.
• The Luteshop Lutenist and LuteMaker Martin Shepherd's page. Includes a history of the lute, articles on stringing and temperment, piece of the month and pictures of his lutes.
• Aquila Strings Click on the Iconography button to see some great paintings of lutes and strings
• Roman Glassmakers Lute Cartoons

Lute Strings

• Gamut Strings Gut strings by Dan Larsen
• Aquila Strings This is the source for nylgut.
• Aquila USA This is the USA source for nylgut.
• kuerschner USA Bernd Kuerschner strings for musical instruments.
• Kathedrale Strings by Nicholas Baldock email: webmaster@baldock.de
• Just Strings Source for La Bella strings.
• Sierra View Acoustic Music Source for Purr'll Gut Strings.
• Northern Renaissance Instruments Sells sets of gut lute strings.
• Sofracob French company. They only supply treble gut and double twist, no bass strings. They no longer supply fret gut
• Universale corde musicali musical strings from first quality selected gut (ram & ox)
• Pyramid Strings Pyramid strings for Historical Bowed and Plucked Stringed Instruments
• CRANE String corner This site has a list of string manufacturers and dealers and explanations of how to obtain strings from each of them

Etc.

• aluminium lute casesaluminium cases by Pierre Rousseau 145, rue de Belleville 75019 Paris (France) Tel/fax : +33 (0)1 42 45 68 74 E-mail: valipier@club-internet.fr
• Lute related picturesAlfonso Marin's collection of lute related pictures
• Lute related pictures Jean-Marie Poirier's collection of lute related pictures divided into Renaissance, Baroque 17th century and Baroque 18th century
• Lute Art in North American Museums Direct link to lute related pictures on the "Links" page of the LSA website
• English Lute Manuscripts and Scribes 1530-1630 An examination of the place of the lute in 16th- and 17th-century English Society through a study of the English Lute Manuscripts of the so-called 'Golden Age', including a detailed catalogue of the sources. Web publication by Julia Craig-McFeely
• S. L. Weiss Information concerning Silvius Leopold Weiss including lists of works and recordings
• Barrel Knot or Blood Knot Vance Wood recommended this knot to me to tie a broken string. This is useful if a string breaks and is longer than from nut to bridge but not long enough to make it to the peg. Here you will find a diagram of how to tie it.
• How to tie fret knots Pictures of how to tie fret knots at David Van Edwards site. This has 3 knots for single frets and 1 for double knots

  Books/articles

• A History of the Lute A History of the Lute from Antiquity to the Renaissance by Douglas Alton Smith A Lute Society of America Publication
• A review of A History of the Lute A review by me of Dr.Smith's A History of the Lute. This review appeared in the Japanese Lute Society Newsletter in 2003.
• Historical Lute Construction Blurb for Historical Lute Construction by Robert Lundberg. I haven't seen this one but would love to.
• The Role of the Guitar in the Rise of Monody: The Earliest Manuscripts by James Tyler Article showing that the ÒSpanishÓ guitar was employed by several of the composers and singers of early monody before 1600.

Lute Makers

• Marcello Armand-Pilon in Cremona web page There are pictures of his instruments here.
• Stephen Barber & Sandy Harris Some beautiful closeups of lutes
• Alexander Batov
• Lawrence K Brown A lot of nice photos
• luthier David Van Edwards' homepage He has some interesting paintings of lutes here, his Lute of the Month pictures and courses on building lutes.
• Sebastián Núñez & Verónica Estevez Makers of Early Musical Instruments Lutes, Vihuelas, Early Guitars & Harpsichords Specialized Restorers of Historical Guitars The Netherlands
• Luciano Faria In Brazil
• Daniel Larson Pictures of how to tie fret knots.
• Martin Shepherd Also includes a history of the lute, articles on stringing and temperment, piece of the month as well as pictures of his lutes.
• Clive Titmuss Builder of lutes and Baroque guitars
• Grant Tomlinson I used one of his beautiful 8 course lutes on the La Primavera CD.

Professional Players

• Robert Barto I
• Robert Barto II
• Jacob Heringman's website
• Jacob Lindberg's website
• Federico Marincola's Lute Page Home of the 9 issues of the Lute Bot
• Ronn McFarlane's website
• Nigel North's website
• Paul O'Dette
• Hopkinson Smith
• Terrell Stone
• Crawford Young
• Takashi Tsunoda