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The Lautarre is a lute instrument that was built and played in the 1970s by the Hamburg musician and violin maker Hans Haider .
Lautarren are box-necked lutes with one of the crest guitar -like body shape. Already in this the instrument differs significantly from the guitar lute, also the English expression "Lute Guitar" chosen by Haider refers to the stronger similarity to the guitar . The bent head with mostly lateral vertebrae is similar to a lute . Ahlert and Hebb describe Lautarre as "a mixture of guitar and lute that was easy to play and had a bright and transparent sound".
Haider built several versions of the Lautarre, initially with six strings, then with seven, ten and up to 13 strings. He describes the advantages in an interview with the Hamburger Abendblatt using the example of the seven-string version: “ The sound possibilities are expanded by a fifth at the bottom and a fourth at the top by a seventh string and a longer neck. A double soundboard also makes the sound much fuller. The biggest advantage: This is an instrument on which you can play any music without constantly having to change guitars. From old lute music to the entire guitar literature to jazz, everything is possible on the Lautarre. "
Various voices were used on Haider's recordings, B. on "Hans Haider und seine Lautarre" (1975), "Lautarre mal 2" (1977), "Impressions on Lute Guitar" (1995), "Classic for Lute Guitar" (1996), "On the Wings of Fantasy" (2003) or “Silent Night: Christmas Carols on the Lautarre” (2010).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernd Ahlert, Bernard Hebb: "The guitar art of an individualist: Hans Haider a master between styles." In: Current Guitar , Volume 32, 2011, No. 112, pp. 6–8
- ↑ "The man with the loud noise." Hamburger Abendblatt dated August 23, 1975, available online