Many baroque lutes survive to serve as models. Some of the better preserved examples are by Joachim Tielke, Johann and Martin Hoffmann and Sebastin Schelle. Many of these instruments have player-friendly string lengths with the bass courses arranged on riders or swan necks. There are numerous large lutes by Thomas Edlinger who specialized in assembling baroque lutes from bowls, bellies and roses of older lutes. Other makers are represented but only by a handful of instruments. This was certainly an era when regional preference played a large part in determining the style of individual instruments. My research, in part, focuses on this variety which I attempt to mirror in the lutes that I build. Currently I am offering: