Category: Historical Makers

George Dudley and His 36-string Harp Guitar

Feb 16, 2012

Here is a special piece that has been in the works since a short teaser I did in October 2010, in...

Feb 7, 2012

…the V.I.P.s being your humble tour guide (my first time at this important facility), Benoît...

Feb 4, 2012

I started to finally work up a blog on the very interesting visit to the Yale University...

Jan 30, 2012

Wow, somebody out there likes me. Several somebodies, in fact. A week ago, someone alerted me to...

Jan 28, 2012

I did a short blog called Schrammels in the Modern World about a year ago (Feb 8, 2011), featuring...

Jan 26, 2012

This is pretty cool… The instrument above is clearly a Harwood parlor guitar that someone...

Jan 24, 2012

Fellow Gibson historian Paul Fox recently unearthed some important rare documents: 2 issues of The...

Jan 5, 2012

…which is to say, that the sixth specimen of the rare short-scale Style 3 (also “Type 3”) Dyer...

Nov 25, 2011

Man. has this been a long time coming. I had almost forgotten that it was 17-18 years ago now that...

Nov 21, 2011

Continuing Saturday’s story on Joe and Linda Morgan’s visit to the Martin factory...