7-Course Travel Lute, Rosewood

The rosewood travel lute has a body made of eleven solid rosewood staves, a rosewood neck and rosewood fingerboard. The peg box is solid rosewood attached at an angle of 135 degrees to reduce the depth of the instrument.  The tuning pegs and end pin are rosewood. The soundboard is made out of European spruce. There are eight nylon frets and four rosewood frets.  The recommended tuning is G2 G3  A2 A3  D3 D4  G3 G3  B3 B3  E4 E4  A4 (Gg Aa dd' gg bb e'e' a').  A nylon gig bag is included.

Materials:

Neck: Rosewood
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Peg Box: Rosewood
Bridge: Rosewood
Soundboard: Spruce
Soundboard Bracing: Spruce
Nut: Rosewood
Tuning Pegs: Rosewood

Dimensions:
Scale Length: 572mm
Overall dimensions: 800mm length, 230mm width, and 152mm depth
Nut Width: 190mm
Weight: Approximately Without Gig Bag: 0.79 kg or 1.75 pounds.
Weight: Approximately With Gig Bag: 1.36 kg or 3 pounds.