Harp Guitar Form 2c

Organology

Harp Guitar Form 2c

Additional Neck harp string attachment, Headstocks are a single-formed piece.
The appearance is not one of "joined" headstocks - instead, a single custom shape or structure connects the two necks.

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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American


Almcrantz, 1895, Pat #542,788	Bay State, c.1894	from Washburn catalog, c.1897	Unknown, c.1899	Unknown


Bruno & Sons, c.1912 Note that this has 12 strings on the neck, so it is a 12-course, 18-string instrument. Additional images 1 Additional images 2	Bruno This unusual specimen is also a 12-course instrument, but has 16 strings - the high two courses are not doubled. Note the carving and tuner array. The 2 tailpieces are add-ons. Additional images 1 Additional images 2	"The Tosi Music Company, 63 Hanover Street, Boston, Mass" (another unique 12-strings on the neck)	Unknown	Unknown	Hartman Bros. & Reinhard, New York, c.1900


Jenkins, 1902 (Harwood) 8 sub-bass	"Harwood," c.1900 12 sub-bass	"Harwood," c.1900 12 sub-bass	"Harwood," c.1900 9 sub-bass, oval holes Additional images	"Harwood," c.1900 6 sub-bass	Harwood? c.1900 12 sub-bass
See also Harwood Special Feature


Gindlesperger	Shutt, c.1912	Gould, 1911 More great photos at Frets.com	"Stella," c.1920	"Sovereign," c.1920	House of Stathopoulo, 1910 Additional images More information at The Vintage Collection at Epiphone.com


Bohmann, c.1892-1895	Bohmann, c.1895	Probably Bohmann, 1890's
See The Harp Guitars of Joseph Bohmann


Larson	Larson (per Hartman)	Truax, 1907 (Larson-made? Hartman says no, Meulle-Stef and I say likely)	Stahl, 1912


Tieri, c.1910	Tieri ? (restored by Tieri)	Unknown (believed to be Italian-American)	Unknown Clearly the same maker, played by Salvatore de Natale from 1920-1938. Courtesy of Sheri Mignano Crawford, "Mandolins, Like Salami"


Iucci, New York, c. 1930 Additional images More great photos at Frets.com	Unknown (Country of origin unknown)	Adams, Dwight, IL, c.1900	Unknown


Unknown (American Mandolin Club, c.1900	Unknown (Minneapolis Mandolin Club, 1897)	Unknown (Mystic Mandolin Club)	Unknown

Austrian / German


Scherzer	Scherzer, 1861	Scherzer copy by Gary Southwell	Scherzer	Scherzer with 11 basses!
Additional Scherzer models below


Raab	Bittner, c.1860 Additional images	Arkhuzen, Moscow, late 1800s (4+7)	Arhuzen, Moscow (spelling varies) (4+7) Additional images


Schenck (built for Ivan Padovec), c.1841 Instrument now owned by the Croatian Institute of Music, and is displayed in the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb. (thanks to Mirko Orlic)	Unknown	Unkown, c.1860 (collection Brigitte Zaczek)	Unknown	Carl Hansel, 1842?, Dresden


Zimmermann, Leipzig, 1899 (4+7)	Zimmermann, St. Petersburg, c.1904 (right specimen is a Russian harp guitar: 4+7)	Eroshkin, Russia (5+7)

Enzensperger, Bernard I,
1835


Enzensperger, Bernard II, pre-1900	Unknown	J. Ch. Detmering, Hamburg	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown


Unknown	Unknown	Fritz Strobel, Klingenthal, 1930s	Volkmar Scherzer, Markneukirchen, 1930s


Anton Hüller The label inside reads: "Anton Hüller Graslitz K& K Hoflieferant und Kammerlieferant Seiner K u. K Hoheit des hochw. durchlauchigsten Herrn Erzherzog Eugen v. Österreich"(Austria)	Josef Müller	Konigs	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Walthari


Unknown	Max Amberger, München	Fritz Harich, Austria, new	Scherzer copy by Leo Sprenger	Hopf, 1951	Unknown


Hauser, Munich, 1913	Oscar Glaesal, Markneukirchen, c.1920	Schuster Brothers (Gebrüder Schuster) Markneukirchen, 1920s	Anton Volkmann	Pavel Zalud, Terezín, Czechoslovakia, c.1900


Unknown	Unknown	Otto Schneider, new	Unknown	Pergold (a division of Kurt Gropp Musical Instrument Co), Leipzig, 1954 (from a rare catalog courtesy of jazzgitarren)	Unknown	Adolf Schlesinger, Vienna


Unknown	Meinel & Herold	Meinel & Herold, 1940	Unknown	Unknown	Hauser, Munich, 1917


Tannhauser	Leo Sprenger, modern	Frank-Peter Dietrich, 1994


Scherzer, 1860	Scherzer Additional images	Modern Scherzer adaptation by Bernhard Kresse	Josef Swosil, Vienna, 1879 (built for Anton Strommayer of the Schrammel Quartet)	Geipel, Marie?	Ludwig Reisinger


Franz Novy	Anton Staufer?
The instruments above offer an intriguing puzzle. The Novy is represented in a group of several different Vienese-style models shown in photographs of unknown vintage and provenance. The alleged Staufer is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. There is also a Georg Staufer terz size guitar with a second label designating restoration by Franz Novy in the early 1900s. Who made these two instruments with the strange 6-on-side main tuners?


Josef Wesely, Vienna	Franz Angerer, Vienna	Josef Prisner, Vienna, 19-- Additional views	Unknown	Matthäus Bauer	Carl Stöhr, St. Pölten, Austria


Ludwig Reisinger	Franz Hilanj, Wels, Austria	Unknown	Unknown	Georg Haid, Vienna, 1925	Wiroso-Röthner	Fritz Harich, Austria, new


Hauser, 1924	Hauser	Schuster, 1824 (birth date?)	Hans Fürst	Unknown	Jacob, 1940	Paul Kochendörfer, Stuttgard, 1914


Ernest Hess	Hess	Adlof Hornsteiner, Mittenwald	Johannes Adler, Markneukirchen, c.1933	Schuster Brothers (Gebrüder Schuster) Markneukirchen, 1920s	GEWA, Mittenwald, 1960	Sinfonia, Markneukirchen


Hubert Heerbeck	Adolf Meinel	Unknown	Josef Forg, Munich, 1930	L. Langecker, Munich	Helmut Buchsteiner, 1985


Walter Hoyer	Max Gottsmann, Markneukirchen	Horst Dietrich	Anton Brawer, 1863	Karl Schandl, Mittenwald

Rudolf Wohltat (or Wohlfahrt?)
Odrau, East Sudetenland (built in what became Czechoslovakia, and is now split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia)
Additional images

A. Biancato, Belgium, 1900

Label reads:
"A. biancato

luthier

114 rue de la marlière

mouscron"

Reinhold Geipel, Fleissen, Bohemia

Geipel

Paesold, Bohemia, pre-1918

Unknown, Mittenwald, c.1890

Wappen Form (shield-shaped)