Category: Contemporary Luthiers

A Lute Out of a Nightmare

Dec 1, 2018

And now for something completely different. Much of my energy this year was spent on a long...

Nov 4, 2018

For those of you who missed it, HGG16 photos are up! Taken by our resident CHGP (Certified Harp...

Sep 3, 2018

Those of you who attended our 12th Harp Guitar Gathering in Idaho in 2014 will recall that (in...

Jul 21, 2018

…which is a fancy word for “I’ve got too much stuff, am completely out of room,...

May 6, 2018

The world’s most elaborate and spectacular public display of harp guitars has ended. It was...

Apr 27, 2018

As I mentioned in the final chapter of our Genoa trip, in June, 2017 I met a Genovese classical...

Mar 25, 2018

Last night we went down to The Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad for the final sold-out concert...

Feb 8, 2018

In 2011, one of the participants at HGG9 (the 9th Harp Guitar Gathering) was Michael Lohr, who had...

Jan 28, 2018

Sadly, my heart was just not into NAMM this year, as we lost our eldest dog Auggie last Sunday...

Dec 14, 2017

A young physics student at Cambridge in the U.K. just sent me his rather intense paper on plucked...