Category: Historical Players

The James Shaw Family: A Hawaiian Musical Dynasty

Nov 13, 2020

Dedicated readers of Harpguitars.net have seen many images and features over the years on Harp...

Oct 15, 2020

Today – October 15 2020 – we learned that our dear friend Franco Ghisalberti passed away. He was...

Sep 18, 2020

Another boon for researchers! Just the other day an AMIS pal of mine (Jayme Kurland) announced to...

Sep 13, 2020

Most readers have seen Eddie Peabody’s fascinating turn playing plectrum-style tremolo harp...

Jun 5, 2020

The last print copies of the exhibit catalog I wrote for our Carlsbad exhibit 3 years ago are long...

May 8, 2020

Once again, I find my music desk backlogged with towering piles of new information and images of...

Apr 20, 2020

Readers may recall that I wrote about Gene and his friend Matteo two months ago in The Tale of...

Apr 3, 2020

That’s right … “Those Three Boys” are finally enshrined for all time. I just sent the monograph on...

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...