Harp Guitar Articles

	What is a Harp Guitar? "Harp Guitar": What's in a Name? (Members Only access) Harp Guitar Patents Harp Guitar Tunings Harp Guitar Timeline of Significant Events (Members Only access) Encyclopedia of Harp Guitar Players of the Past Fretted Harp Guitars Harp-lutes Harpolyres Mixed Family Hybrids & Other Related Forms Lyre Guitars & Related Instruments Extended Range Guitars Super-Trebles: To Infinity and Beyond (Members Only access) Makers Articles Altpeter Harp Guitar and Double-Harp Ukulele The Harp Guitars of Joseph Bohmann Dyer Harp Guitars: The Knutsen-Dyer Connection The Dyer Harp Mandolin Family and Knutsen’s Influence The Mysterious Five-Course Harp Mandola The Harp Guitars of Settimio Gazzo and Other Genoese Luthiers The Gibson Harp Guitar by Benoît Meulle-Stef Tullio Giulietti and Sons by Roger Belloni, edited by Gregg Miner Harwood Harp Guitars The Lacôte Harp Guitars The Harp Guitars of Mario Maccaferri (Harpguitars.net Members Only) May Flower Harp Guitars Harp Guitars and Related Instruments of Monzino & Sons Marvelous Mozzani! The Incredible Harp Guitars of Luigi Mozzani Harp Guitars of the Chinery Collection The Birth of the American 12-string Guitar Frank E. Coulter Harp Guitars and Other Stringed Instruments Milanese Master Luthier Luigi Galimberti Tony Biehl, a Harp Guitar Manufacturer Ahead of His Time Featured Harp Guitar of the Month Series "Harpe-guitare," catalog # 1550 in the Brussels Musical Instrument Museum A Portuguese Knutsen?! The Bohmann Monster Lyon & Healy's Monster Bass Harp Guitar A Dyer Detective Story Harp Ukuleles Another 1-of-a-Kind Knutsen Convertible Harp Guitar: Hybrid with a Heritage by Duncan Robertson (from Frets Magazine, November, 1979) The Oldest Extant Gibson Harp Guitar by Gregg Miner with Benoît Meulle-Stef The Mystery Maccaferri America’s First True Harp Guitar "Chitarra monumentale"and its relation to the Gazzo harp guitars of Pasquale Taraffo The Shutt Mando-Bass-Harp-Guitar A Unique Lacôte Décacorde by Françoise Sinier de Ridder, with Gregg Miner Lacôte / Coste Heptacorde by Bernhard Kresse, edited by Gregg Miner Stephen Bennett’s Great-Grandfather’s Dyer The House of Stathopoulo Harp Guitar by Paul Fox The Grunewald Harp Guitar The Behee Lyric Harp Guitar The Petzval-Scherzer Guitharfe Weymann Harp Guitar with Double "Tree of Life" inlay The Harp Guitar of Boris Perott Tony Biehl Harp Guitar: Ahead of Its Time A Short History of the Modern Archguitar Dyer Harp Mandolins and the Symphony Harp Plectral Ensemble The Harp Guitars of Emilio Calamara The Paul Gardie/Harmony Orchestral Harp Guitar Harp Guitar Player of the Month Series, Historical Heinrich Albert and the World's First Harp Guitar Quartet Italo Meschi, the Last Italian Troubadour Chris Knutsen: Harp Guitar "Triple Threat" Neil G. Christian: The Harpguitar: Its History and Its Only Practitioner (from Guitar Player, March, 1976) Mario Maccaferri, Concert Harp Guitarist Pasquale Taraffo: The World's Greatest Harp Guitar Virtuoso by Franco Ghisalberti & Gregg Miner Albert Shutt and the Mando-Bass-Harp-Guitar Tullio Giulietti and Sons by Roger Belloni, edited by Gregg Miner Maccaferri, Revisited George Dudley, America’s Most Famous Unknown Harp Guitarist Black Harp Guitar Players James Reese Europe and the Clef Club Orchestra Roy Butin, Revealed! The Harp Guitar of Boris Perott The Legacy of the Cera Brothers Vardon, Perry and...Wilbers? Søffren Degen by Thomas Nielsen Emilio and Emily Calamara: A Tale of Two Musicians by Sheri Mignano Crawford The Knutsen Archives Knutsen Stringed Instruments: Categories, Styles & Terminology Chris Knutsen's Patents Harmony in the Family by Jean Cammon Findlay What’s in a Name? by Jean Cammon Findlay Knutsen Residences Today by Jean Cammon Findlay Does Chris Knutsen Have Living Descendants? by Jean Cammon Findlay Chris Knutsen: Vignettes of a Life by Jean Cammon Findlay Steamboats: How Chris Knutsen Traveled around Puget Sound by Jean Cammon Findlay Lester Payne’s Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra Otto Anderson Otto Anderson, Instrument Maker for Chris Knutsen by Jeanette Detlor Otto Anderson Violin Exploring the Knutsen - Anderson Connection Ingman Ivar Strum Bert Amend & the One-Armed Musicians Dyer Harp Guitars: The Knutsen-Dyer Connection The Dyer Harp Mandolin Family and Knutsen’s Influence The Mysterious Five-Course Harp Mandola A Dyer Detective Story A Knutsen Bass Guitar? Harp Ukuleles Another 1-of-a-Kind Knutsen Convertible Chris Knutsen: Harp Guitar "Triple Threat" The Knutsen-Weissenborn Connection by Gregg Miner, with Jonathan Kellerman

	Harp Guitar Player of the Month Series, Contemporary Phil deGruy: Limitless Guitar Michael Hedges by Nate Blaustein Phil deGruy, Revisited! So who exactly IS Brin Addison and why is he suddenly Harp Guitarist of the Month? A Short History of the Modern Archguitar Harp Guitar Player of the Month Series, Historical Heinrich Albert and the World's First Harp Guitar Quartet Italo Meschi, the Last Italian Troubadour Chris Knutsen: Harp Guitar "Triple Threat" Neil G. Christian: The Harpguitar: Its History and Its Only Practitioner (from Guitar Player, March, 1976) Mario Maccaferri, Concert Harp Guitarist Pasquale Taraffo: The World's Greatest Harp Guitar Virtuoso by Franco Ghisalberti & Gregg Miner Albert Shutt and the Mando-Bass-Harp-Guitar George Dudley, America’s Most Famous Unknown Harp Guitarist Black Harp Guitar Players James Reese Europe and the Clef Club Orchestra Roy Butin, Revealed! The Harp Guitar of Boris Perott The Legacy of the Cera Brothers Vardon, Perry and...Wilbers? Søffren Degen by Thomas Nielsen Emilio and Emily Calamara: A Tale of Two Musicians by Sheri Mignano Crawford After Six: Player's Tips by Stacy Hobbs Playing Out, Part 1: WHY? Playing Out, Part 2: WHEN? Playing Out, Part 3: WHERE? Getting Started For Beginners Rolling Through To Ring, or Not to Ring In a Pinch “CAGED” at Last Pickin' Low "Low Down Leo" "Making Musical Choices" by Stephen Bennett Playing the Harp Guitar by John Doan (from Frets Magazine, Sept, 1988) TD ELECTRIC HARP GUITAR APPROACH by Tim Donahue The "Expanded" Harp Guitar: Adding Possibilities with Super-Trebles by John Doan Miscellaneous Harp Guitar Tablature: In Search of A Standard by Nate Blaustein and Gregg Miner Harp Guitars at Healdsburg by Frank Doucette Harp Guitarists Visit Alex de Grassi's Weekend Guitar Workshop by Gregg Miner

	Harp Guitar Luthier of the Month Series Harp Guitars at Healdsburg by Frank Doucette Stephen Sedgwick by Brad Hoyt Arpa Viola Caipira, Part 1: Genesis and Design by Brad Hoyt Arpa Viola Caipira, Part 2: Construction and Innovation, featuring Luthier Stephen Sedgwick by Brad Hoyt Harp Guitars at the Guild of American Luthiers 2006 Convention William Eaton: Instruments for the New Age (from Frets Magazine, January, 1983) Shopping For the Perfect Harp Guitar by Frank Doucette Birth of a Harp Guitar: The Story of Wingert HG1-0207.I.M.4 by Frank Doucette The "Expanded" Harp Guitar: Adding Possibilities with Super-Trebles by John Doan Albert Shutt and the Mando-Bass-Harp-Guitar Non-Standard Scale Harp Guitars Meet the (Harp Guitar) Maker: Woodley White A Short History of the Modern Archguitar

	The Harp Guitar Gathering The Harp Guitar Gathering, Nov 1 & 2, 2003 Trip Report: The 2nd Annual Harp Guitar Gathering by Fred Carlson The 3rd Annual International Harp Guitar Gathering by the Participants The 3rd Annual International Harp Guitar Gathering: Schedule of Events The 4th Annual International Harp Guitar Gathering by the Participants The 4th Annual International Harp Guitar Gathering: Schedule of Events The 5th Annual International Harp Guitar Gathering *See Main HGG page for all years.* Year of the Harp Guitar Year of the Harp Guitar: June, 2006 - July, 2007 Harp Guitars at the Guild of American Luthiers 2006 Convention Harp Guitarists Visit Alex de Grassi's Weekend Guitar Workshop Harp Guitars at Winfield! by Joe Morgan The Museum of Making Music presents Harp Guitars: Passion, Imagination, Artistry Miscellaneous February, 2007: The Miner Museum Acquires Important Rare Specimens (Members Only access)

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