Category: Historical Makers

The Guitarpa Finds a New Home

Oct 4, 2024

After decades of drooling, we finally got the chance to see and examine the fabled Gallegos...

Oct 1, 2024

In the field of American harp guitar history, there has always been three key – and very...

Sep 25, 2024

In the United States, some fifty-five different firms and individuals built harp guitars in the...

Jul 23, 2024

While not a harp guitar-specific post, today’s adventure will include a few hints of them,...

Jun 29, 2024

This is the last in a series of my “AMIS Trip Report,” where I wrote about some of the people and...

Jun 18, 2024

In Part 3, I told a personal story of tracking down a French collector’s instruments at the...

Jun 10, 2024

Last week I shared some of the photos I took in the MIM galleries during our American Musical...

May 14, 2024

Greetings, Bohmann aficionados! I’ve just finished an update to get all the recent years of...

Apr 17, 2024

Readers of my book Floating Strings: The Remarkable Story of the Harp Guitar in America will...

Mar 18, 2024

I have long counted myself extremely fortunate to be among the rarified owners of that Holy Grail...