What is this called?

My daughter recently returned from a student tour of France and Spain. She took a ton of photos, including this one, of a man with a type of guitar I've never seen before. Anyone know what it is?

My daughter recently returned from a student tour of France and Spain. She took a ton of photos, including this one, of a man with a type of guitar I've never seen before. Anyone know what it is?

It has been many years since I had music history ( still can't remember the difference between the troubadours and trouv'ers) but I believe it is a type of lute..

Theorbo? (http://www.catacoustic.com/instruments.html)

Theorbo? (http://www.catacoustic.com/instruments.html)

Please no more calls... we have a winner..

That looks close, although the neck is longer. Maybe there are bass, alto and tenor versions?

..... a man with a type of guitar I've never seen before. Anyone know what it is?We used to call them "midgets", but now we prefer "little people".










Oh, and the guitar is a "ukulele"! :mrgreen:

Maybe an Archlute (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archlute)?

Worst headstock repair ever!

Arch-lute or archlute (English) theorbo/theorbe is Italian and/or Austrian

A lute generally has 7 courses, the bottom 6 courses are doubled unison, the top is a single - 13-string.
Usually tuned top string = G. To lute-tune a guitar, drop your 3rd to F#, you are missing the bottom course but are 3-semis lower than a standard lute.

From there they start adding extra bass courses. These are normally pedal notes (... B C D E ...) and may be single strings. Then we get the extended neck or double neck archlute/theorbo/chitarrone try http://www.vanedwards.co.uk/spencer/html/spencer.htm

Maybe an Archlute (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archlute)? Closer, I think!

Maybe an Archlute (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archlute)?

Just don't call it a "jazz lute " or some one will get on here and start fussing about how you can play jazz on any lute, and it's all about the luiter ( lutiness, lute dude..whatever) and there is no such thing as a jazz lute....

Just don't call it a "jazz lute " or some one will get on here and start fussing about how you can play jazz on any lute, and it's all about the luiter ( lutiness, lute dude..whatever) and there is no such thing as a jazz lute....

The jazz lute ?
http://www.ottocentotoscano.com/immagine_galleria_15.jpg

How does he fit it in that little case?!!