Julian Bream

Guitar: Hermann Hauser I, Germany. SP/CSAR (1928) Date: Purchased by Bream on 1950

Notes - Used in early recitals from 1950 to 1955 - Last restoration 1989 - Sold on January 18, 1992 - No known recordings with this guitar.

Guitar: Ramírez - unknown model or year of construction. Date: Acquired August 1947 Notes: - Bought in poor condition and repaired by Julian's father.

Guitar: Panormo classical guitar - very early model but unknown year of construction. Date: Acquired in early 1947 Notes: - Bought in poor condition and repaired by Julian's father. - Appears to have loaned to Julian for a concert at the Colonial Hostel, Earl's Court, London in May 5, 1947

Guitar: Salvador Ibáñez (Valencia, Spain) - 1930 Date: Loaned to Julian in 1946 Notes: - Adult sized guitar loaned by Wilfred Appleby and used at Julian's "trial" recital in Cheltenham on December 7, 1946 when he was 13 years old. - Owned by Wilfrid M. Appleby, of Cheltenham, who published the Guitar News for many years. - Wilfred Appleby gifted the guitar to the University of Edinburgh in 1985.

Date: Acquired in 1946 Guitar: Maccaferri guitar - unknown model or year of construction. Notes: - First played this guitar publicly at a PSG meeting in October 1946. - Used for Julian's first radio broadcast in January 7, 1947 - Julian's first formal publuc recital at Cheltenham following the the "trial" recital was nearly cancelled due to Henry intending to let Julian play this guitar. Wilfred
Appleby was arranging the Cheltenham recital. Mr. Apppley abhorred extra-stringed guitar and referred to them as "novelty variants" and "freak" guitars. he was not about to allow this guitar to be used for a classical guitar recital. - The Maccaferri guitar was exchanged for the Giuseppe Calace of Naples (Italian) Spanish-style classical guitar in June 1947.

Guitar: Salvador Ibáñez - unknown model or year of construction (early 1900). Date: Acquired in 1944 Notes: - July 15, 1944. Julian becomes 11 years old and his given a small Spanish guitar. - At 13 year old he used this smaller guitar for his first formal recital at Cheltenham despite already having used adult sized guitars.

Thomas Goff 1951 Lute - 7 courses (copy of 16th century lute with seven courses and 12 strings) The lowest five courses are doubled and the highest two are single strings. Variation from original period instruments: -frets are metal, not gut

From low to high tuning DD-GG-CC-FF-AA-D-G

-Lute used for the recording of The Golden Age Singers' album Dowland: Ayres for Four Voices, Vol. 2 in 1956.

-Lute used for the recording of the Alfred Deller's album Monteverdi Il Ballo Delle Ingrate recorded in 1957

-Lute used for the recording of the album Elizabethan Lute Songs: vol. 1 of An Anthology of English Song in 1955

-Lute used for the recording of the album Julian Bream Plays Dowland recorded in 1956

-Lute used for the recording of the album A Recital of Lute Songs recorded in 1958

-Lute used for the recording of the album The Golden Age of English Lute Music recorded in 1960

-Lute used for the recording of the album An Evening of Elizabethan Music recorded in 1962

-Lute used for the recording of the album Rodrigo, Vivaldi, Britten recorded in 1963 (selection 4-13)

-Lute used for the recording of the album Julian Bream in Concert recorded in April 1963

-Lute used for the recording of the album Lute Music from the Royal Courts of Europe recorded in April-May 1966

-Lute used for the recording of the album Dances of Dowland recorded in 1967

-Lute used for the recording of the album Sonatas for Lute and Harpsichord recorded in 1969

David Rubio 1967 Lute - 8 courses (copy of 17th century lute with eight courses and 14 strings)

The lowest six courses are doubled and the highest two are single strings.

Variation from original period instruments:

• the string length is the same as Bream's guitar

• frets are metal, not gut

• built a little heavier to take the string tension.

-the higher frets on the body have been changed throughout the years as the instrument has been repaired.

From low to high tuning

DD-FF-GG-CC-FF-AA-D-G

• Lute used for the recording of the album Elizabethan Lute Songs (Julian Bream and Peter Pears) recorded in April 1969.
• Lute used for the recording of the album The Wood So Wild recorded in June 30 & July 1,2 1972.

• Lute used for the recording of the album Concertos for Lute and Orchestra recorded in June 3, 1975.

• Lute used for the recording of the album Lute Music of John Dowland recorded in April 23-25, 28, 29, 1976.

Luc Breton 1987 Lute - 10-courses (modern copy of a 17th-century 10-course lute) The lowest nine courses are doubled and the highest one is single strings. Variation from original period instruments: - the string length is the same as Bream's guitar - frets are metal, not gut - built a little heavier to take the string tension. - the higher frets on the body have been changed throughout the years as the instrument has been repaired.

From low to high tuning CC-DD-FF-GG-CC-FF-AA-DD-G-Lute used for the recording of the album Fantasies, Ayres and Dances recorded in September 2-4, 1987

• Lute used for the recording of the album Two Loves recorded in April 22 and September 20-22, 1988