Category: Musical Travels

AMIS Part 4: Dawg and Acoustic America

Jun 18, 2024

In Part 3, I told a personal story of tracking down a French collector’s instruments at the...

Jun 10, 2024

Last week I shared some of the photos I took in the MIM galleries during our American Musical...

Jun 2, 2024

Greetings, friends: I started my 2024 AMIS Trip Report with a write-up on the people there, along...

May 26, 2024

Greetings, Nerds, Scholars and Musical Instrument Obsessives! This is the first in a series of...

Oct 15, 2020

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

Oct 4, 2019

Two weeks ago, I took an impromptu drive to Phoenix for the last weekend of their The Electric...

Sep 17, 2019

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

May 27, 2019

Greetings! I’d here to report on my lovely trip to the 2019 Meeting/Conference/Symposium of the...

Feb 1, 2019

A few weeks ago, I blogged about the unique one-off “nightmare lute” (at left) and mentioned the...

Jan 28, 2019

I can sum up my short NAMM experience this last Saturday in two words: Filippo Bertipaglia. But...