Category: Gibson

The Vahdah Olcott-Bickford Collection

Jul 18, 2014

For those who may wonder where all this historical harp guitar information comes from, the answer...

Jun 24, 2014

Like many of you, I’m a huge fan of early Gibson aesthetics, the more scrolls and points...

Apr 13, 2014

I just received photos of a hilarious (but ingenious) experimental instrument created by new...

Feb 23, 2014

Flipping through the February 2014 Vintage Guitar magazine the other day at the newsstand, I ran...

Feb 1, 2014

Exactly one year ago, I published the special Harpguitars.net article Black Harp Guitar Players in...

Oct 5, 2013

By now, you all presumably know my feelings about Wikipedia (my last rant is here). Yes, I try to...

Aug 7, 2013

What does one do with a now-useless Gibson harp guitar missing its entire bass section? Turn it...

Feb 1, 2013

Every time February rolls around and I see all the advertised “celebrate Black History Month”...

Dec 29, 2012

Here’s a charming, albeit unfinished, story to cap off our year. I just snagged this off...

Nov 10, 2012

It’s Thursday morning, Nov 1st and just a day and a half left before the Harp Guitar Gathering...