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Bibliography

Harp Guitar Bibliography: Books and Periodicals (Partial list)

This is an incomplete list of a variety of print sources that may or may not be beneficial.  To be honest, the further back one goes within these articles and books, the more errors and nonsense are typically found.

Special thanks to John Doan and Stephen Sedgwick for contributions

Periodicals:

Acoustic Guitar, May 2003: Harp Guitar Revival
Acoustic Guitar, October 2005: G.A.S. Station (Gregg Miner)
American Lutherie No. 10 American Plucked Instruments at SMM.
American Lutherie No. 21 1990 The Mandolin Orchestra in America.
American Lutherie No. 22 1900 Andalusia and the Modern Guitar.
American Lutherie No. 29 1992 Harp Guitar: That Extra-String Thing.
American Lutherie No. 34 1993 A New Look at Harp Guitars.
American Lutherie No. 38 1994 The Ukranian Bandura.
American Lutherie No. 51 1997 Of Sympitars and Suzalynes.
American Lutherie No. 69 2002 Prepare to Meet the Maker: Kerry Char
American Lutherie No. 87 18th Convention, Tom Shinness
American Lutherie No. 88 Benoit Meulle-Stef, Lyre Guitars, Basslautes
American Lutherie No. 137 2019 Delving Into the Vagaries and Mysteries of Early Gibson Guitar Strings By Way of the Harp Guitar by G. Miner
Early Music, #7.3, July 1979.
 Richard Pinnell, The Theorboed Guitar
Early Music Today, October / November 1997 The Theorbo
Early Music, #46.1, February 2018, Taro Takeuchi: Rediscovering the Regency lute: a checklist of musical sources and extant instruments
Fretboard Journal #41 Spring 2018 A Lost Scroll of the Ages (Orville Gibson harp guitar) by Gregg Miner
Frets November 1979, Harp guitar, Hybrid with a Heritage
Frets March 1982, The Lute, Instruments from the Ages
Frets January 1983, William Eaton, Wechter
Frets September 1988, Harp Guitar Renaissance
Frets Winter 2006, Harp Guitar Exhibition
Guitarmaker No. 58 The First True Harp Guitar
Guitar Player, 1976, The Harp Guitar and Its Only Living Practitioner
Guitar Review 115 (Winter 1999)
Guitar Techniques, October 1994 Music Maker Publication
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20th Century Guitar, March, 2005: Oddball Harp Guitars
The Ukulele Occasional Vol 2: Harp Ukuleles
Vintage Guitar, October 2005: Gibson Harp Guitar
Vintage Guitar, Misc. Peter Kohman has written many excellent articles on harp guitar topics through the years which are worth seeking out.

Books:

Allen, George & Karl Geiring, Instruments in the History of the Western Music, Unwin Publishing, 1978
Bacon, Tony. The Ultimate Guitar Book, (DK) Dorling Kindersley Publishers, 1993
Baines, Anthony.(Ed) Musical Instruments Through The Ages, Penguin Books Ltd, 1978
Bains, Anthony. European and American Musical Instruments, New York, The Viking Press, 1966
Baines, Anthony. Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of Musical Instruments Vol II Non-Keyboard Instruments, Printed by Jarrold and Sons Ltd, 1968
Baines, Anthony. The Oxford Companion to Musical Instruments, 1992
Bone, Phillip. The Guitar and Mandolin: Biographies of Celebrated Players and Composers, 1914 London: Schott & Co. Ltd
Brogger, Kenneth. Danish Guitars & Their Makers, Forlaget Roset, 2001
Brookes, Tim. Guitar: An American Life, Grove Press, 2005
Button, Stuart W. Julian Bream: The Foundations of a Musical Career, 2006
Caldwell, John. The Guitar in England 1800-1924, Oxford University. Garland Publishing Inc 1989
Carter, Walter. Gibson Guitars, 100 Years of an American Icon, (GPG) General Publishing Group Inc 1994
Chinery, Scott with Tony Bacon. The Chinery Collection, 150 Years of American Guitars, Published in the UK by Balafon Books, 1996
Crawford, Sheri Mignano. Mandolins, Like Salami: A History & Personal Memoir, Zighi Baci Publishing, San Francisco, CA, 2005
Egger, Margarethe. Die Schrammeln in ihrer Zeit (the Schrammels in their time)
Evans, Tom and Mary Anne. Guitars: from the Renaissance to Rock, Facts on File, New York 1977
Freeth, Nick & Charles Alexander. The Acoustic Guitar, Bramley Books 1999. Courage Books, Philadelphia - London
Frignani, Lorenzo & Intelisano, Giovanni. La Storia della Liuteria Centopievese, 2006
Gruhn, George & Walter Carter. Acoustic Guitars & Other Fretted Instruments: A Photographic History, GPI Books/Miller Freeman Books, San Francisco, 1993
Guild of American Luthiers. Big Red Book of American Lutherie series. Book 1, contains issue #10, Book 2 contains issue #21 & 22, Book 3 contains issue #29 & 34
Hartman, Robert Carl. Guitars and Mandolins in America: Featuring the Larsons' Creations, Maurer & Co., 1984, 1988
Hartman, Robert Carl. The Larson Creations, Guitars and Mandolins, Centerstream Publishers, 1996
Hartman, Robert Carl. The Larsons' Creations, Centennial Edition, 2007
Howe, Steve. The Steve Howe Guitars Collection, IMP Publishers 1993
Intelisano, Giovanni. Mozzani: Un liutaio e la sua arte, Arts & Crafts
Jahnel, Franz. Die Gitarre und ihr Bau. Frankfurt am Main, Verlag Da Musikinstument, 1963 (Translated Edition) Manual Of Guitar Technology
Katalinić, Vjera & Majer-Bobetko, Sanja, Editors. Ivan Padovec (1800-1873) and His Time, 2007
Kellerman, Jonathan. With Strings Attached: The Art and Beauty of Vintage Guitars, Ballantine Books, 2008 (numerous Knutsen instruments)
Kuronen, Darcy. Dangerous Curves: The Art of the Guitar, 2000 MFA Publications
Mactaggart, Peter and Ann (Ed) Musical Instruments in the 1851 Exhibition, published by Mac & Me Ltd
Marcuse, Sibyl. A Survey of Musical Instruments, David and Charles Newton Publications 1978
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Spanish Guitar, La Guitarra Espanola,1991-1992
Miner, Gregg (Carolyn Grant, editor). Floating Strings: The Remarkable Story of the Harp Guitar in America, Museum of Making Music 2017
Miner, Gregg. Norwegian Wood, 2018
Miner, Gregg. W. J. Dyer & Bro. Symphony Harp Mandolins and the Symphony Harp Plectral Ensemble, 2019
Moldrup, Erling. Guitaren: Et eksotisk instrument i den danske musik, 1997
Munrow, David: Instruments of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Oxford University Press, London 1976
The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments
. London: MacMillan Publishers Ltd, 1980
Noe, George T. & Daniel L. Most. From Harp Guitars to the New Hawaiian Family - Chris J. Knutsen - History and Development of the Hawaiian Steel Guitar, Noe Enterprises, 1999
Ramirez III, Jose. Things about the Guitar, Soneto Ediciores Musicales
Rodgers, Jeffrey Pepper. Vintage Guitars: the Instruments, the Players, the Music, String Letter Publishing, 2001
Jose L. Romanillos. Antonio de Torres, Guitar Maker, his Life and Work, Element Book Ltd, 1987
Sachs, Curt. Real-Lexikon der Musikinstrumente, 1913
Sachs, Curt. The History Of Musical Instruments, W.W.Norton & Company Inc Publishers, 1940
Sinier de Ridder. La Guitare, Paris 1650-1950, 2007
Summerfiel, Maurice J. The Classical Guitar, Its Evolution & Its Players Since 1800, Ashly Mark Publishers, 1982
Timmerman, Alex. De Mandoline en De Gitaar: Door de Eeuwen Heen (The Guitar and the Mandolin Through the Ages). AETii-Producties, 1994
Timmerman, Alex. Guitars with Extra Bass Strings (chapter in Ivan Padovec), 2007
Tyler & Sparks.
The Guitar and Its Music: From the Renaissance to the Classical Era, 1980
Wright, Michael. Guitar Stories Vol II, 2000|
Zuth, Josef Handbuch der Laute und Gittare, 1926

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