Vihuela by Marco Golinelli
The vihuela, despite a shape that bears a close resemblance to that of a guitar, was strung at the same intervals of a lute, and was especially popular in Spain in the sixteenth century. Unfortunately, only very few original instruments have survived to the present day and these each have quite different characteristics and sizes, and are generally very different from what we see in the iconographic evidence of the period. Between 1535 and 1576 music for vihuela reached its highest point, in this period the publications of dances, fantasies, sacred music and songs represent, with their elegance, completeness and technical accomplishment, one of the high points of sixteenth-century music.
- Vibrating length 620mm
- Own model inspired by iconography
- in Fiemme Valley spruce soundboard extra quality, two parts bookmatched
- Walnut sides
- Walnut flat bottom in two parts
- Cypress neck and headstock, veneered headstock front
- Ebony soundboard binding
- Soundboard decoration with wood and bone inserts
- Boxwood fingerboard
- Pearwood bridge with boxwood top
- Pyramid strings
- Includes hard case
About the maker
Marco Golinelli attended City Lutherie School in Milan studying the construction of musical instruments with master luthiers Tiziano Rizzi and Lorenzo Lippi and musical instruments restoration with master luthier Gabriele Negri where he specialized in building instruments of the lute family as well as early guitars and mandolins.
Since 2001 he started working together with Stefano Zanderighi, a project that would eventually led to the birth of the Liuteria d’Insieme workshop in 2003. His work ischaracterised by great care in researching on original models and early building and painting methods. The instruments he builds are distinguished by their great fidelity to original models without losing sight of building details andcharacterised by a rich and dynamic sound.