Clouds: a New Themed Double Album from the Harp Guitar Collective!
Dear Readers, This one has been in the works since January 1st 2024, and due to arrive about...
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Max Monterosso: Featured Harp Guitar Luthier of the Month
Max Monterosso, who hails from a small town outside Padua, Italy, has been building harp guitars...
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A Visit With Jim Bollman
While not a harp guitar-specific post, today’s adventure will include a few hints of them,...
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AMIS Part 5: “Harp Guitar” Labeling: Have I Created a Monster?
This is the last in a series of my “AMIS Trip Report,” where I wrote about some of the people and...
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AMIS Part 4: Dawg and Acoustic America
In Part 3, I told a personal story of tracking down a French collector’s instruments at the...
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AMIS Part 3: The Raymond Zéliker Collection
Last week I shared some of the photos I took in the MIM galleries during our American Musical...
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AMIS Part 2: New Instruments and Some Old Favorites at the MIM
Greetings, friends: I started my 2024 AMIS Trip Report with a write-up on the people there, along...
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AMIS Part 1: People, Papers & Posters
Greetings, Nerds, Scholars and Musical Instrument Obsessives! This is the first in a series of...
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Bohmann Harp Guitars: Update
Greetings, Bohmann aficionados! I’ve just finished an update to get all the recent years of...
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Knocking Off Jenkins’ Harwood
Readers of my book Floating Strings: The Remarkable Story of the Harp Guitar in America will...
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