Organology

Harp Guitar Form 1c

Theorboed Headstock harp string attachment, Extension is a contiguous, slightly extended, enlarged, or "fanned" component of the main headstock.
Sub-bass string(s) can be held by a simple extension nut, extension of wood, or on an enlarged fan-shaped headstock.

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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        European

Lacote decacorde (10-course), 1826 Lacote, 1855, modified by Coste Olry, modified by Coste
See Lacote: Multi-course, Extended Range or Harp Guitars? for all known specimens and players.
Unknown, Mirecourt, c.1830 Thorel, Mirecourt Carl Knudsen, c.1847, Copenhagen, Denmark Antonio de Torres,
1885		 Vicente Arias, 1890
Bohmann, Chicago, c.1899

See The Harp Guitars of Joseph Bohmann

 Vinaccia, Naples, 1900 Emanuele Egildo, Italy, 1926 Jacob, 1933

        Contemporary         

Stephen Sedgwick, 1999
(Torres 11-string reproduction)		 Joseph Mayes, 2001 (7th floating D string, a la Lacôte) Jack Sanders, 2006 (Lacote decacorde reproduction) Jeffrey Elliott, 1990

Additional images

 Erwin Somogyi, c.1985
(for George Winston)		 Alan Perlman 
(for James Kline)
Hans Haider

13-course (3 floating basses), made for himself.  Hans played a fully fretted 12-string on his recordings

 

 Federico Sheppard

12-course (3 floating basses), made for Peter Lang.

 Erik Pierre Hofmann,
2004		 Andrew Ellis, Perth, Western Australia, 2005
A resophonic guitar (for Jeff Martin) with a 7th floating "drone," with movable nut for scale/tuning changes. Additional images on the builder's site here.		 Julius Borges, 2006

A 6 string with an unfretted A drone (for Emmylou Harris)

 

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