Organology

Harp Guitar Form 1a

Theorboed Headstock harp string attachment, Extension has no support.
Extension is pronounced, and emanates upward, to the side, or in a compound bend in true theorbo fashion.

NOTE TO RESEARCHERS:  Please understand that many of the instruments on this page were not originally referred to as "harp guitars."
To understand why they are classified as such today, it is imperative that you first thoroughly read and comprehend the site author's thesis.

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Deleplanque, France, 1782 Feivez, 18th century Anon, France, 18th century Anon, France, c.1760?
Gaetano Guadagnini, Torino Italy, 1834 J. A. Stauffer & Comp., Luigi Legnani Model, Vienna, 1837
(collection Brigitte Zaczek)		 Nikolaus Georg Ries, Vienna, c.1840
(collection Brigitte Zaczek)		 Schenk, c.1845 Georg Tiefenbrunner, Munich, 1885?
Joseph-Alexis Tournier, Paris Tournier
Composer Saint-Saen's personal guitar 		  D.& A. Roudhloff, London, c.1840
Kaltenbacher Unknown Austrian, c.1900
Halbmeyer Quintbassogitarre,
c.1910		 Hauser Quintbassogitarre, 1922
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| copyright 2004 | Wildner AG		 Quint bass:
Willy Ködel, Amsterdam?
See also Featured Harp Guitar Player of the Month, July, 2004 Additional images
Bernhard Kresse, modern copy based on Scherzer Unknown Jos. Martin, Würzburg Lorenz Kriner, Stuttgart, Germany,
c.1870
Wilhelm Kruse, Markneukirchen Meinel & Herold, Markneukirchen, 1940 Unknown Unknown Hess, Klingenthal Zimmermann, Leipzig, 1899
(Russian harp guitar: 4/7)
A. Hornsteiner, c.1950 Unknown, German or Austrian, c.1860 Unknown, Saxony Unknown, German
Gelas Unknown, Italy? Unknown, Italy? Unknown, Italy Gallesi, Rome

No idea how the basses were attached

 Nor on this one
Mozzani, 1910-1940s Innocente Rottola (for Monzino & Sons), 1906

Giovanni Gelmini, Brescia,

1844

 Giacinti, Milan, c.1930
 
Italian, c.1800? Unknown maker. The right image opens up a collage of details.
Washburn, USA, 1897 Bohmann, USA, 1900s Gaetano F. Puntolillo, New York, c.1920
Vissenaire, Lyon, 1825 Robert Lotz, c.1850 Hans Raab August Schultz August Schultz, 1926?
Scherzer Halbmeyer, Munich
(additional photos and info here)		 Unknown Richard Jacob, Leipzig, 1948 Mozzani, c.1910-1940s
Luciano Faria

(copy of c.1760 instrument above)

 Peter Biffin, Australia, 1999 Michael Thames, USA, 2005 R. E. Brune, USA left-handed, c.1995 DiMauro, France Antonello Saccu, Italian copy or original?
Walter Stanul
Arch-Guitar made for Elliott Gibbsons		 Walter Stanul
Arch-Guitar made for Peter Michelini		 Jim Hewett, USA Fred Carlson, USA Unknown Tim Donahue, Japan Masahiko Ohno, Japan
Steve Sedgwick, England, 2007 Alhambra Contreras

 

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