Knutsen Harp Guitar    

I’d waited two years to get photos of Joe Giacoio’s Knutsen for The Archives. Finally, I saw (and played) it when he brought it to the first annual Harp Guitar Gathering.  Four years later, he sold it through Harp Guitar Music and I took these photos.  A great playing and sounding guitar that held its own with the Larson instruments.

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(right image copyright Nicole Hobbs, others Gregg Miner)

Knutsen Archives Inventory Number

HGT24

                 Category

Tacoma Harp Guitars

                 Body Style

"Symphony"

                 Current or last known owner

Stringed Instrument Division > Joe Giacoio > Steve Sjuggerud

              Year (approx)

1898-1900

                 Label

none

                 Courses / Strings

11 course: 6 strings on neck, 5 bass

                 Frets

slanted
                 Scale length unknown
                 Neck Joint unknown

Woods

Top

Adirondack spruce (per Mandolin Brothers' appraisal)

Back & Sides

mahogany

Neck

Spanish cedar

Fingerboard

unknown

Bridge

stained pearwood
Headstock veneer none (bass headstock: mahogany)

Binding, trim

Top

multi-colored wood, ivoroid

Back

none

Fingerboard

none

Headstock(s)

none
Soundhole brown & blonde purfling

                 Inlay

pearl dot fret markers

                 Pickguard

none

                 Comments

Sold by Stringed Instrument Division Dec, 1999. Re-fretted.

 

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