Category: Historical Makers

A Happy Harwood Ending

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...

Nov 19, 2011

Joe & Linda Morgan took some extra vacation time before Harp Guitar Gathering 9 to spend some...

Nov 15, 2011

A fourth transcription and recording has been completed by Christian Saggese (see The Second...

Nov 9, 2011

…Christmas Present, to be precise. Nearly 2 years in the making, this one is pretty...

Oct 13, 2011

Hello all – finally back from the (tremendously fun, albeit exhausting) 9th Annual Harp Guitar...

Sep 25, 2011

Many of us consider the music of Pasquale Taraffo (1887-1937) the pinnacle of harp guitar playing...