Organology

Harp Guitar Form 2b

Additional Neck harp string attachment, Headstocks are connected.
 A permanent piece of wood or metal joins two otherwise separate headstocks.

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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Lyon & Healy "American Conservatory"
1890s-1912		 Lyon & Healy "American Conservatory"
1890s-1912		 Lyon & Healy "American Conservatory" Lyon & Healy Monster Bass, c.1910

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Bohmann, c.1899

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Lyon & Healy "American Conservatory"
c.1915-1920s		 Oscar Schmidt "Sterling" Stahl Washington brand, from 1930 Tonk Bros catalog
("Washington" is on a plaque on the headstock) 		Unknown

Same design, but extremely fancy.  Customized or factory?
Wurlitzer "Howard" (Wurlitzer brand) Unknown "Raymond" "Stewart"
Carl Fisher, c.1902 Carl Fisher (?) Carl Fisher (?) Angello Mandello, NY
Biehl (missing sub-bass neck) Bohmann Unknown
 (note the 12 neck strings. This instrument is somewhat different from the Bruno "12-string" in Form 2c) 		Unknown

 

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