Links to Great Sites (updated for 2024)

Following are some of the early music websites that we feel are the most useful and most interesting resources for early music performance and/or listening. It constantly amazes us how much information is available on the internet for performers of Renaissance and Medieval music.

• The Shakespeare Band
• Lute Society of America The LSA has two summer seminars for lute, one on each side of the continent.
• Lyre Music for inexpensive editions of lute and vihuela tablature.
• Due Chambure Our favorite vihuela players. Great recordings!!!
• Viola da Gamba Society of America
• Baroque Guitar Dr. Gary Boye's website of baroque guitar tabs.
• Instructions for the Baroque Guitar Three important sets from the Lute Society UK
• Free Lute Music In postscript form
• Historical Lute Construction Robert Lundberg's great opus.
• Schneider Guitars A Bearsville, New York guitar maker who has experience with lutes and historical stringed instruments. In the last year or so he has become one of the most sought-after guitar makers in America today.
• Harp Music in Toronto Julia Seager-Scott, baroque triple-harp player in Toronto Canada.
• Lute Plans from the Guild of American Luthiers.

Strings for Lute, Guitar, others:

• Gamut Music in Duluth, MN.
• Aquila Strings the U.S. representative for Aquila Corde Armoniche, gut strings and synthetic strings.
• BOSTON CATLINES, Olav Chris Henricksen, 34 Newbury Street, Somerville, MA 02144 USA (617) 776-8688 catlines@aol.com

A modern day Minstrel: Craig of Farrington. Craig follows Renaissance fairs around the country and is a full-time performer and singer on the lute. A true Renaissance man!

My trilogy traces the first astronomical records of a solar flare in 1100 BC as recorded on ancient tablets (The Colors of Fire), and follows the trail of the tablets as they reappear during the crusades (Of Princes and Kings) and again during modern times (Flare). "A compelling combination of fictional narrative and scholarship, Brown combines his knowledge of ancient peoples with historic battles in a fast-paced , believable story of love, magic, fire, and war." -Modern Times.

	Colors of Fire		Of Princes and Kings		Flare

Lute Makers in the U.S.A.

• Lyn Elder, 74 North Street, Bristol VT 05443
  Tel: 802-453-3625 lynelder08@gmail.com
• Daniel Larson in Duluth, MN.
• Andy Rutherford, 136 Waverley Pl. #12B, New York, NY 10014. (212 243 5325) luteworld@gmail.com
• Richard Fletcher, RD 1, Box 83, Roaring Branch PA 17765 570-324-6447

• Lute Society UK/makers.htm
• My personal preference for lute makers in England is Malcolm Prior.

Lawrence Diehl Brown is also well known as an author of historical fiction. He recently completed a trilogy spanning more than 3000 years. MY AUTHOR PAGE MY FACEBOOK PAGE