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Vihuelas

Vihuelas are made as six or seven course instrument. They have a beautiful rosette of parchment build from five layers (click on the photo to see cutting a rosette) and a nice decoration in the sound-board. String length is 60 cm. Tuning for the six course is gg-cc-ff-aa-dd-gg. Tuning for the seven course is dd-gg-cc-ff-aa-dd-gg.

Woods and finish

All Vihuelas have an Alpine spruce sound-board. Back and sides are made off curly maple or Spanish cypress. The neck is made of maple and the fingerboard of ebony. The decoration in the sound-board is made of satin wood and ebony or bone with ebony. Sound-board finished with casein lacquer, back and sides French polish.

Prices:

click here to hear Hans van Goch playing this vihuela.(mediaplayer or winamp)

7 course vihuela (1995)

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Last modified: September 11, 2014, © John J. van Gool