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Welcome to the
Members Only Pages
of Harpguitars.net
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Notice: Please keep this
area protected. No sharing of information, files, or passwords
(or
Membership will be permanently revoked).
Thank you! Gregg Miner
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| July, 2008: An extensive feature on performer and
inventor Albert Shutt comes in a non-members version and an
exclusive
Members-Only Version, with full size image links, full
patents and catalog reproduction. |
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| November, 2007: As part of the spectacular new Pasquale
Taraffo section, Members can view this exclusive clip of Taraffo
in action (the only footage known to exist)!
To Video |
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| November, 2006: Researchers may find my
Harp Guitar Timeline useful.
Until someone writes the definitive history of the harp guitar
(hopefully, someone a lot smarter than I), this can serve as a
simple guide through snapshots of the instrument's development.
Only select key events are represented; this, of course,
represents only a very small percentage of all the makers and
players of the instrument over three and a half centuries. |
| November, 2006: Benoît Meulle-Stef contributed a
just-discovered incredible c.1906 Gibson harp guitar brochure.
While we will eventually discuss the information in the Gibson
section, I decided to restrict viewing and study of the full
document to Members Only. Anyway, everyone with a semi-serious
or even casual interest in this instrument is already a
Harpguitars.net member, right?! This wonderful item is one of the
most detailed, thorough, specific and valuable pieces of harp guitar
provenance I have ever seen. Not only is it smack in the
middle of the little-known transition from the old models to the
new, it presents all we could hope to know about the intention of
the Gibson harp guitar, its stringing and tuning options, its use,
its techniques, notation, damping, you name it! Forget Orville
and Loar for a moment...the unsung dreamers, designers, builders and
players of this instrument truly deserve their recognition as well.
While it still has some of the trademark Gibson hype, it is not as
blatantly grandiose; this is more of a technical document and
helpful guide. |
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Summer, 2006: Here, for your enjoyment is a rare clip of Tim Donahue performing "Norwegian
Wood" on his custom-built (by himself) electric fretless harp guitar, which
aired in 1994 in Japan.
Thanks to Tim for making this available to us. We are hopeful that Tim will
be able to attend the 4th International Harp Guitar
Gathering in Naples, FL this Fall! 10/06: And he did! Read about it
here.
Play Quicktime clip.
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This should take about a minute to start in IE,
longer with Mozilla.
If you get a prompt to "Open or Save?" this is likely caused by your
Quicktime settings (corporations and employers may mess this up for you at
work).
Opening may hang up your connection, and you'll have to start over.
If so, next time try saving to your drive, and opening from there.
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On a lighter note...
Incriminating photos from the Harp Guitar Gatherings...
HGG4: 10/1/06: Wahlbergs' wrap party
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Stephen Sedgwick, Dan LaVoie, Stephen Bennett and wife
Linda, Andy McKee, John Doan, Stacy Hobbs and I in front.
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