Category: Historical Makers

The Tale of Knutsen Symphony Harp Guitar #HGT1

Feb 13, 2020

Recently, via a long, convoluted and unrelated Google search, this new and curious image at right...

Nov 8, 2019

I first met Bad Drew Baldwin when we featured him (with his occasional partner, Juke Joint Johnny)...

Nov 1, 2019

Nine years after I first wrote about this instrument, I saw one of those old photos popping up on...

Sep 26, 2019

There’s nothing I love better than over-the-top Knutsen eccentric esoterica, and this about takes...

Sep 17, 2019

I’m typically not a procrastinator, but yes, I was planning for the last 10 months to get to MIM...

Aug 25, 2019

When my friend and fellow collector John Vonk called in the spring of 2018 to say he had just seen...

Aug 19, 2019

Yes, I’ve finally committed it to print! (But don’t worry, only an extremely small...

Jul 5, 2019

I recently finished the book I mentioned picking up at AMIS: A Stowaway Ukulele Revealed: Richard...

Jun 28, 2019

I think I’ll call this the Summer of (Joseph) Bohmann… …as that’s how long...

Jun 17, 2019

Time for a shout out to the Guild of American Luthiers, of which I seem to perpetually find myself...