Category: Musical Travels

The Musical Instrument Collection of Walter Erdmann

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. ...

Apr 16, 2018

After a wonderful evening downstairs in our hotel at the private reception Franco hosted for us...

Apr 6, 2018

In June 2017, my wife Jaci and I enjoyed another European trip, instigated in part on my...

Mar 25, 2018

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

Mar 25, 2018

Last night we went down to The Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad for the final sold-out concert...