Sorry, readers – nothing interesting ready for today… I was gone from dawn to just now (8 pm) on a sudden biz trip to San Jose (for the pesky day job). Back to find the usual 3 dozen emails (half spam). Harp guitar-related items of the day: 2 new requests for Holloway quotes Correspondence and [...]

When we uncover new images of historical harp guitar players, I’m always curious about whether the old photo or postcard is of some nameless amateur or unknown performer, or whether it could turn out to be a “known” historical figure whose image has eluded us.  It is rare indeed when a fascinating photo can be [...]

Here’s the second of those latest patent finds I mentioned a week ago.  This one I purchased on eBay in July from one of those dealers who prints out all sorts of patents on fancy paper and binds them in a folder to look nice.  Overkill for my purposes, but it was the only way [...]

Here, as promised, are the latest treasures collected by Rainer Krause. This first is a Viennese guitar with 4 theorboed basses by C. F. Bauer, whom I see is not yet in my Encyclopedia of makers… Rainer says this Bauer – from Klingenthal (Saxonia) – worked for a time for Stauffer, and this instrument was [...]