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Baroque lutes
Baroque lutes have usually 11-14 course, which can have different string length and additional pegboxes. Their sound is due to a different design and material selection of bowl and the belly different to the sounds of Renaissance lutes, especially of the early Renaissance lutes. Her tone is rather warmer, longer the echo and the sound volume is greater.
According to the belly or corpora of baroque lutes have different shapes. We find instruments with flat corpora similar to those of theorbo. The flatter cross-section gives these instruments a better sound emission and range of audibility in the room. Such instruments can also be used for accompaniment and the continuo playing..
Other instruments have a more rounded, deep cross-section, producing a sound that seems to be spreading around the player and these envelopes. This leaves these instruments particularly suitable appear for the solo playing. We can find such instruments for example in the swan-necked lutes of historical workshops from Hoffmann, Widhalm or Schelle, but the latter two used a somewhat flatter bowl and thus combined the advantages of both models, the warm sound and good projection.
A lot of baroque lutes are often reconstructions or modifications of Renaissance lutes or Arciliuti. Thus one finds in Baroque instrument sometimes labels from lutemakers according to the Renaissance, such as Frei or Tieffenbrucker. Others has been developed as new instrument. These lutes came from the workshops of Joachim Tielke, Magno Dieffopruchar, Thomas Edlinger, Martin and Johann Christian Hoffmann, Leopold Widhalm or Sebastian Schelle
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