Category: Musical Travels

Franco and Gregg: A Love Story

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...

Jun 10, 2018

This year, the American Musical Instrument Society (AMIS) held their annual meeting in Bethlehem,...

May 6, 2018

The world’s most elaborate and spectacular public display of harp guitars has ended. It was...

Apr 27, 2018

As I mentioned in the final chapter of our Genoa trip, in June, 2017 I met a Genovese classical...

Apr 21, 2018

Surprisingly, after last night’s dinner of local Genovese beef au natural, we slept very well. ...