Category: AMIS

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...

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...

Jun 10, 2018

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

Mar 25, 2018

After our several days of AMIS musical instrument fun, we had desperately wanted to get out to the...

Mar 18, 2018

Star Date: Monday, June 5th, 2017. Location: Edinburgh, Scotland. What & Why: The annual...

Mar 11, 2018

Greetings, fellow travelers! I now return rather belatedly to the series of adventures I had in...