Gibson Harp Guitar Strings
Readers may recall my 2019 post about my exhaustive 11-1/2-page American Lutherie article...
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Category: Gibson
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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RIP Musical Pioneers Mickie Zekley and Paul Brett
Sadly, we’ve recently lost two more huge names in the world of music, both tangential to the harp...
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America’s Harp Guitar Playing Evangelist Preacher Southern Gospel Singers
Click on the image for a new Historical Players Feature. This one introduces a previously unknown...
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New American Lutherie Harp Guitar Anthology
Just in time for Christmas…to yourself! GAL members (including me) will soon get this...
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David Lindley, Our Very Own Psychedelic Harp Guitarist (1944-2023)
Another shocker, as the extremely fascinating multi-instrumentalist and trailblazer David Lindley...
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Mr. Palm: Soren Venema (1952-2021)
He was the legendary owner of Palm Guitars, the world-famous shop that opened in 1995 on...
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Women in Harp Guitar History: Gibson Gals
Harp Guitarists in Women’s History Month continues from last episode’s hollow arm harp guitar...
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The Story of the Invincible Four
Looking for something to celebrate 2021’s Black History Month, I went back through my files to see...
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