Category: Historical Makers

John Stropes: Featured Player of the Month

Apr 17, 2025

Our most recent feature is someone who most of us perhaps rarely think of as a “harp guitarist,”...

Feb 2, 2025

My article on the famous maker was offline for several years, as it had become a convoluted mess....

Jan 15, 2025

Greetings all – It’s taken me some time, but I’ve finally done a full revamp of...

Nov 3, 2024

Readers may recall my 2019 post about my exhaustive 11-1/2-page American Lutherie article...

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...