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This page features an alphabetical listing of professional and amateur modern luthiers who have built at least one professional quality harp guitar. Some of these are personal instruments, others are custom orders or regularly offered models by full time luthiers. Many of these individuals also restore harp guitars. Historical luthiers are listed on the Makers page. |
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Luthier of the Month Archives |
Luthier List Click on harp guitar images to enlarge (most entries)
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Bart Applewhite (Phoenix, AZ. Financial manager of the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery, electric harp bass) |
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Arul (India. Composite harp sympathetic guitar) |
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Alberto Bonafini (Ceneselli, Italy) |
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Julius Borges (Littleton, Mass. "Mini-Harp" Guitar for Emmylou Harris) |
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| Ralph Bown (England. Dyer copy) |
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R.E. Brune (Chicago, IL. Scherzer restorations and copy for Brian Torosian) |
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Fred Carlson (Santa Cruz, CA. Harp-Sympitars for Jeff Titus, various new one-of-a-kind designs) |
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Davide Castellaro (Italy. Acoustic and electric harp guitars for Paolo Giordano and others) |
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Kerry Char (Portland, OR. Left-handed Dyer copy and much experience with restoring and setting up harp guitars) |  |
| Douglas Ching (Chester, VA. Dyer variant) |
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| Cloe Guitars (Daniele Cardoni and Luca Cesaroni, Italy. Electric harp guitar) |
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De Faoite Stringed Instruments (David White, Bucks, England. Ladder-braced harp guitar) |
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J. Thomas Davis (Columbus, OH. Built a Dyer copy for Bill Dutcher) |  |
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Mark Deering (St. Paul, MN. Custom harp guitar designs) |  |
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Tim Donahue (Japan. Makes his own electric fretless harp guitars) |  |
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Mike Doolin (Portland, OR. Harp guitar for Muriel Anderson) |
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Philippe Dubreuille (Bonnatrait,
France. Electric for Ben Harper with 4 short floating basses and
sympathetics within the back. Sympathetic guitars for others.) |
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Michael Dunn (New Westminster, BC Canada. Builds various Knutsen-inspired instruments) |
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William Eaton (Phoenix, AZ, director of the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery, numerous unique harp guitar and related designs) |  |
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Harry Eibert (Syracuse, NY. Dyer/Knutsen inspired harp guitar, ukes and mando) |  |
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Jeffrey Elliott (Portland, OR. Designed John Doan's original 20-string harp guitar, and nylon string harp guitar) |
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Ellie Erickson (electric harp guitars) |
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Dave Evans (Brussels. Harp guitar for Pierre Bensusan) |  |
| Luciano Faria (São Paulo, Brazil. Reproductions of c.1760 theorboed guitar) |  |
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| Mickey Fischer (creates his own hybrid harp guitars) |  |
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Harry Fleischman (Sebastopol, CA) |  |
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Steven Ganz (Bellingham, WA. 11-string classical guitar for Jacek Kado) |
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Fritz
Harich (Austria. Schrammel guitars: 2 models)
Herderstraße 6 |
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Jim Hewett (Panorama Village, TX) |
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Charles Hoffman (Minneapolis, MN) |
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| Erik Pierre Hofmann (France. Theorboed guitar) |  |
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| Mark Kaiser (Harp guitar for Eric Loy) |  |
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Steve Klein (Linden, CA. Electric harp guitars for Michael Hedges and others) |  |
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Bernhard Kresse (Cologne, Germany. Restoration [like the Lacote pictured] and reproductions of Romantic era harp guitars) |  |
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Pierre Lamour (France. Custom harp guitar designs) |
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Del Langejans (Holland, MI. Harp guitar for Muriel Anderson) |  |
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Bart Lawrence (Wenham, MA. An architect and furniture maker who also builds guitars, including an intriguing harp guitar) |  |
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Leed's Guitarmaking School (director Ivon Schmukler supervised a student's copy Dyer copy) |  |
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Linda Manzer (42-string Pikasso guitars for Pat Metheny and Scott Chinery) |  |
| Joseph Mayes (7th floating D string, a la Lacôte) |
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Lance McCollum (Colfax, CA) |
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Peter McGilton ("exotic" electric guitars) |  |
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Chris McKenna McKenna Flutes, Inc. 8 Raymond Road Deerfield, NH 03037 Phone 1-603-463-4185 Fax 1-603-463-7230 |
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| Michael Menkevich (Elkins Park, PA. 33-string harp guitar for Fred Vandenberg) |  |
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Rich Mermer (Sebastian, FL) |
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Merrill & Co. (Williamsburg, VA. Stephen Bennett model Dyer copies) |  |
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Roland Metzer (Warngau, Germany, replica of wappen-shaped 1907 Hans Raab) |
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Benoît Meulle-Stef (Belgium. Builds custom instruments and restores harp guitars) |  |
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Orville and Bob Milburn (Sweet Home, OR) |
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Morgan Guitars (Glen Morgan
& daughter Alisa Everitt, OK) 601 W Rogers Blvd. Skiatook, OK,74070 Local - (918) 396-4144 Toll Free - 1 (866) 660-7834 |
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| David Newton (Beaumont, TX. Harp mandolins) |
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Duane Noble (Richland,
WA. Contemporary Knutsen/Dyer-inspired harp guitars)
1524 Rimrock |
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Ralph Novak (San Leandro, CA. Built Phil DeGruy's electric "Guitarp") |  |
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Oakwood Instruments (Leeds, England. Martyn Banks & Gordon Hewson built this copy of a William Eaton design [with 2 banks of strings on the body] for Indian guitarist Rajan Spolia) |  |
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Patrick Podpadec (Madison, Ohio. "Dreamcaster" for Brian Henke) |  |
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Antoine
Pappalardo (Quintacorde replica of a baroque era harp
guitar with 13 strings. Nine of the strings or courses over lay a
fretboard but the lowest four are exclusively played like the harp section
of a standard harp guitar. - DT) |
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Alan Perlman (San Francisco, CA. "Arch guitars" for James Kline, and similar harp guitars) |  |
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Anthony Powell (Idaho, Knutsen-inspired instruments) |  |
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Steve Rolig (Santa Fe, NM) |
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| Antonello Saccu (Built two reproduction Italian instruments for Beppe Gambetta) |
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Michael Sandén (Sweden) |  |
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Jack Sanders (Los Angeles, CA. Lacote decacorde reproduction) |
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Sandpiper Instruments/John Westling (Coquille, OR) |  |
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Otto
Schneider (Germany. Schrammel guitars)
Bernd & Otto Schneider |
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Stephen Sedgwick (England. Numerous harp guitar designs, modern, reproductions, and in-between. Stephen is also a scholar of the harp guitar's history) |  |
| Federico Sheppard (Green Bay, WI. 12-course Spanish guitar [3 floating basses] for Peter Lang) |  |
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Charles Shifflett (Alberta, Canada) |  |
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Takahiro Shimo
(Tokyo, Japan)
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Ervin Somogyi (Oakland, CA) |  |
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Gary Southwell (Nottingham, U.K. Scherzer restoration and copy and James Kline's first "archguitar") |  |
| Ron Spillers
(Richmond, VA. Made Stephen Bennett's first Dyer copy)
8342 Greenock drive |
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Leo
Sprenger (Schrammel guitars: 2 models in different sizes)
Jaisweg 5 |
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Walter Stanul (Boston, MA. Creator of the arch-guitar for Peter Blancette and others, two of these instruments were in harp guitar form) |
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John Sullivan (Portland, OR. John Doan's original "20-string harp guitar") John passed away on April 21, 2007. We all will deeply miss him. |
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Dan'l Terry (Austin, TX) |  |
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Michael Thames (Taos, NM. The "Dresden" - a 13-course theorboed classical guitar) |  |
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Mitsuhiro
Uchida (Japan) 4947-27 Fujisawa Takato-cho, Kamiina-gun, Nagano, JAPAN Post Code: 396-0301 Telephone: 0265-96-2145 Mr. Uchida does not have a PC. His client Morihiko Yasuda has kindly created the above web page for him. |
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Edgar Vila (Naples, FL. New harp guitar for Andy Wahlberg) |  |
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Doug Whittier (gone missing) |  |
| Glenn Wilson (Australia. Has an instrument based on a design concept by Fred Carlson - with Doolin-like double-cutaways) |  |
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Kathy Wingert (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA. Harp guitar for Frank Doucette) |
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Steve
Wise (Dyer-inspired harp guitar and harp-uke)
512-282-6418 |
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Steve Wishnevsky |  |
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Jim
Worland (Rockford, IL) Builds William Eaton lyraharp guitar variations. |
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Additional Internet articles or photo essays on harp guitar projects Fred Carlson: Making Sound Look Good by Wade Vonasek Fred Carlson: The New Dream: 39-string acoustic Harp-Sympitar with MIDI-capability (2006) Fred Carlson: Big Red: A 38-string custom Harp-Sympitar (2005) Fred Carlson: The Flying Dream: 39-string acoustic Harp-Sympitar with MIDI capability (2003) Fred Carlson: The Harpouditar: A 26-String Guitar/Oud/Zither (2002) Fred Carlson: Kali: 12-String Guitar with 2 Added Sub-basses (2000) Mike Doolin: 17-string Jazz Harp Guitar (2006) Mike Doolin: Muriel Anderson's Harp Requinto Dave Evans: Pierre Bensusan's 23-String Harp Guitar Charles Hoffman: Harp Guitar Pierre Lamour: Eclose: 17 String Extended Guitar, Cyclopea: 12 String Harp Guitar Alan Perlman: Arch Harp Guitar Stephen Sedgwick: Making Harp Guitars Stephen Sedgwick: Torres 11 String Copy David White (De Faoite Stringed Instruments): Making a Harp Guitar Jim Worland: The Lyraharp Guitar, a 24 string harp guitar |
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