The caravola is made of African wenge wood. Ebony wood has been used for the fingerboard. The lid is made of fir wood that has been painted with wood color. On the surface of the lid, in the place where the musician’s pen comes into contact with the strings, an acetopaste has been placed to protect and prevent the wood from being damaged by the performer’s movements.

For the construction of the vessel, eleven ebony rods have been used, which have been divided by forty-four partitions

The caravel is 18 cm long.. and 4.5 to 6 cm long..
The fingerboard is 35.5 cm long.
The width of the hand is 3.5 to 5 cm.
The distance between the two riders is 75 cm.
The diameter of the “rosette” is 10.5 cm.
The width of the speaker is 37 cm.
The depth of the speaker is about 20 cm.
The length of the lute is 107.5 cm.

The total length of the instrument is 1 meter.
The length of the boat is 49.5 cm and the lid is 37 cm wide.
The depth of the speaker is 17.5 cm and the diameter of the rosette is 10.5 cm.
The arm length is 36 cm and the fingerboard has a width ranging between 3.9 cm (bottom) – 4.7 cm (top).
Finally, the “carousel” is 18.5 cm long and 6 cm wide.

• The total length of the instrument is 1 meter.
• The carafe is 18.5 cm long and 6 cm wide.
• The length of the hand is 36 cm.
• The length of the boat is 49.5 cm.

Cretan Lute Cap.
Workshop of the organ maker Potamitis Anastasios, Tsikalaria, Chania.

According to Anastasios Potamitis, the lute is about seventy years old, originating from Paleochora.

The lid is made of fir wood.
The width of the lid is 36 cm and its length is 47 cm.
The width of the stringer is 21 cm.

The photo shows the front view of a Cretan lute lid, made by Kontaxakis Kostas.

The wood that has been used to make the lid is fir wood.
Its length is 49 cm.
Its width is 40.5 cm at its widest point, 35.5 cm at the height of the rosette and 6 cm at the point where it joins the lute arm.
The diameter of the rosette is 11cm.

Fir wood has been used for the construction of the lid.
The length of the cap is 49 cm.
Its width is 40.5 cm at its widest point, 35.5 cm at the height of the rosette and 6 cm at the point where it joins the lute arm.
The diameter of the rosette is 11cm.
The instrument maker Kostas Kontaxakis has made this particular lute cap, using the “guitar armature”.
As he describes it, instead of the vertical bows placed on the inside face of the lute lid, he has placed only two vertical bows, in the traditional way, and several other bows diagonally, modeled after the guitar bows.
This particular construction, according to the instrument maker, is suitable for shaping lutes intended for accompaniment and not for soloing.