This 1967 Jose Rubio 8-course lute, (number 118) was originally made for Julian Bream when Rubio was living in New York, just prior to his return to the UK. After paying it a while, Bream decided he wanted an identical one, but with a bridge that had a bone saddle. So, in 1967 Rubio, who know had his workshop on Bream's estate made number 127 took this one back in exchange. Bream subsequently used his 1967 Rubio lute (number 127) for many recordings, including: Elizabethan Lute Songs (1970), The Woods So Wild (1972) and The Lute Music of John Dowland (1976). This lute is mentioned in Westbrook, ‘The English Gentleman Luthier, David Rubio: An Identity Born in the USA’, Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, XLV (2019), p 227. Since Bream often choose the woods himself, when Rubio made number 127, he was careful to use woods from his stock that were from the same trees. The soundboard of Number 127 is perhaps even the next slice of the tree, with the same dark figured lines in the centre of the booked-matched soundboard that is seen in number 118.