Alain Cloutier is playing this Weiss Sarabande on a 11-string guitar built by Alain Bossé in 1995. The instrument is based on the Swedish luthier Georg Bolin’s alto guitar developped in the 1960’s. The instrument has a regular classical guitar scale length of 650 mm as opposed to the 570 mm scale length generally used by the inventor Georg Bolin (1912-1993). The instrument is tuned in D minor (415 HZ) to play directly from lute tablatures therefore avoiding the use of complex transcriptions made for the modern classical guitar.

Alain Bossé is a lutherie enthusiast based in Montreal, Canada.