Lutes for Sale, Wanted, or Stolen

A Request

If you are successful in selling an instrument, we hope you will consider making a donation to the Lute Society of America.

How to Post an AD

Please note that this list is for lutes and related fretted stringed instruments in vogue primarily from the Medieval to eras after Baroque.
To avoid delay please follow the directions here then send an email to forsale@lutesocietyofamerica.org

Disclaimer

The LSA cannot make recommendations on the instruments listed below, since we have not seen any of them. Please reply directly to the sellers. The most recent listings are at the top and the oldest at the bottom of the list. If you buy one of these instruments please send a note to forsale@lutesocietyofamerica.org so we can take that instrument off the list.

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How to Use the Lutes for Sale List

Using the Category filter below, select a type of listing to view: For Sale, Wanted, or Stolen.  All images below are clickable. To display the full image, click on it. The newest listings will appear at the top.

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Beautiful Archlute – 14 Course after Magno Dieffopruchar

February 17, 2021

Stolen

Larry K. Brown 1994. 66 cm/140 cm.
Shaded yew ribs with elaborate inlay on the fret board and neck/extension. Rosewood pegs. Strung with nylgut.
Sent my archlute to a lutenist in trade for a 10-course lute, never received lute nor a return of my instrument
Please contact me if you have seen this instrument.


CONTACT Email: stevensebastian at gmail dot com

Theorbo built by Michael Schreiner (Toronto) 1998 # 542 , after Kaiser.

August 28, 2008

Stolen

85 cm/ 165 cm string lengths.
27-ribbed Indian Rosewood back.
Triple Rose (inset rose, from an older top).
Black Kingham case.
A similar instrument is pictured here: http://www.schreinerlutes.com/theorbos_mkaiser.html
This instrument was stolen off a NJTransit train at Metropark, NJ (NEC 3801) on August 27 2008.
Please contact with any information.

New Jersey, United States
CONTACT theorboy [at] gmail.com 1.917.921.0526

The 26th of june-01, a theorbo was stolen in Barcelona, Spain

June 30, 2001

Stolen

Triple rose ( see the pictures ), and, looking through them, the inside label reads : ” JAUME BOSSER – OCTUBRE 2000″.
Total length: 1m55 about.
Back made of 13 ribs of stained ash with rosewood strips between.
14 strings and 16 pegs .
With its black hardcase.

Still missing September 2020

Barcelona, Spain
CONTACT If you ever find it please contact urgently with JAUME BOSSER - tel. 34-93-8080200, mobile ++34 - 646 187157 ana.jaume@bosserluthier.net

Rental Lutes for the LSA

August 26, 2023

Wanted

The Lute Rental Program Needs More Lutes!

The Lute Rental Program frequently has applicants waiting, but not enough lutes for them all. We have a crying need for 8-course Renaissance lutes in G, i.e. with a string length of 62 cm or less. Please—if you’re not using your old student lute, we have somebody who wants to rent it! Don’t worry about its worn strings and loose frets–we’ll take care of that.

Interest in the baroque lute is also growing fast. With renters often waiting for 11-course and 13-course lutes, we would be very grateful for more such donations. And there are always waiting lists for archlutes and theorbos.

The Lute Rental Program gladly welcomes donations of lutes of all other types, also baroque and Renaissance guitars, vihuelas, colasciones, citterns–all early plucked-string instruments. Your donation will be recognized on our website, and with a plaque affixed to the lute’s case. The LSA is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, authorized to acknowledge your donation for tax purposes. The Lute Rental Program is also grateful for your legacy donation, if you wish to remember us in you will.

If you wish to donate an instrument, or money to buy one, please contact the Lute Rental Program Director.

For information on renting an instrument, please see the Lute Rental Program web page.


CONTACT lrp@lutesocietyofamerica.org

Wanted: 14 Course Archlute, 10 Course Renaissance Lute

October 20, 2022

Wanted

Wanted for purchase:
14 course archlute (larger size, in the 60 & 140s cm string length), used or new, with no repairs needed. Single strung preferred.
10 course renaissance lute used or new, with no repairs needed.
If you have such an instrument, I would appreciate sound samples and then might arrange to try the instrument in person before deciding to purchase.

United States
CONTACT Julian Kwasniewski, trad.lute (at) gmail.com -- I'll probably be in Michigan, Virginia, or Nebraska.
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