ROBERT LUNDBERG, LUTHIER June 25, 1948 - March 3, 2001
Robert Lundberg is a lute maker in Portland, Oregon. Since opening his workshop in 1971, he has built just over 400 Renaissance and Baroque stringed musical instruments, of which approximately 300 are from the lute family.
Mr. Lundberg's lutherie training was first with Portland violin maker Paul Schuback and then with lute maker Jacob vande Geest in Vevey, Switzerland. A major source of Mr. Lundberg's knowledge of musical instrument construction in the European Renaissance has been his extensive research in museum collections throughout Americaand Europe, identifying, measuring and analyzing historical instruments. In addition to building instruments full time he has been a conservator for the Division of Musical Instruments at the Smithsonian Institute and has restored instruments in many private and public collections.
Instruments from the workshop of Robert Lundberg have been exhibited in the National Collection of Fine Arts and in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian's Museum of American History, at the American Craft Museum in New York City, and at other galleries and museums. Since 1978, he has lectured on the theory of lute making and taught lute construction annually at the Erlangen Lautenbaukurs in Erlangen, West Germany. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Lute Society of America and of the Editorial Board of the Journalof the Lute Society of America. Mr. Lundberg's articles regarding historical stringed instruments have appeared in American Lutherie, the Journal of the Lute Society of America, and The New Harvard Dictionary of Music.
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