Category: Historical Makers

Change the pitch of your sub-bass strings? A plethora of 100-year-old inventions can show you how!

Oct 22, 2010

Had Guitar Player magazine existed in the 1920s, that’s how I imagine an ad in the back pages...

Oct 19, 2010

A busy weekend, this last – meeting and making two new friends. Friday evening we spent several...

Oct 15, 2010

I recently received a digital copy of this beautiful, newly-discovered photograph of harp guitar...

Oct 11, 2010

Sorry folks, I’m getting behind again. Spent most of the weekend on our home office remodel...

Oct 9, 2010

Here, as promised, are the latest treasures collected by Rainer Krause. This first is a Viennese...

Oct 7, 2010

I’m never one to shy away from controversy, so I thought I’d start stirring the pot on a new...

Oct 6, 2010

One of my favorite parts of Harpguitars.net has always been the Patents page. And it still is. ...

Oct 5, 2010

Syracuse, NY luthier Harry Eibert recently sent me pics of his latest creation – an...

Oct 3, 2010

“Baby” being the unusual little Knutsen Hawaiian guitar on the far left, just back...

Oct 2, 2010

Harp guitarist Steve Bissell sent me this link to the photo at left, which I agreed was amazing! ...