What is Lautenwerck?
[[File:Lute-harpsichord.PNG|thumb|Lautenwerck]] The '''lautenwerck''' is a [[keyboard instrument]]. It is also called the '''lute-harpsichord'''. Like the [[harpsichord]], it makes sound by plucking the strings with a [[plectrum]]. It uses [[gut string]]s instead of metal strings. The gut strings make the instrument sound like a [[lute]]. There are no lautenwercks from the 18th century which survive today. <ref>{{cite web |last1=Ripin |first1=Edwin M. |last2=Wraight |first2=Denzil |title=Lute-harpsichord (Fr. clavecin-luth; Ger. Lautenklavecimbel, Lautenklavier, Lautenwerck) |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.17215 |website=Grove Music Online |year=2001 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.17215 |accessdate=16 April 2022}}</ref> [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] had two lute-harpsichords. It is thought that some of the music that he wrote for the lute is actually for the lautenwerck.<ref> {{cite journal |last1=Henning |first1=Uta |title=The Most Beautiful among the Claviers: Rudolf Richter's Reconstruction of a Baroque Lute-Harpsichord |journal=Early Music |date=October 1982 |volume=10 |issue=4 |pages=477–468 |doi=10.1093/earlyj/10.4.477 |jstor=3126936 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3126936}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Keyboard instruments]] [[Category:Early musical instruments]] {{music-stub}}