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Contributors to this page have been Don Adams, Nate Blaustein, Frank Doucette and Michael Simmons |
Contemporary Music
CDs featuring harp guitar
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Various Artists (The Harp Guitar Collective & Friends) www.harpguitarmusic.com |
The Water is Wide: A Tribute to Stephen Bennett | Gregg Miner's surprise project for Stephen includes many of the Harp Guitar Collective, plus tracks by Tommy Emmanuel, Kim Person and Jim Bennett. |
Various Artists (The Harp Guitar Collective) www.harpguitarmusic.com |
Christmas Present: Fingerstyle Harp Guitar Music | All new music featuring the growing roster of artists affiliated with the Harp Guitar Music label, including for the first time Mike Doolin and Brian Torosian. |
Various Artists (The Harp Guitar Collective) www.harpguitarmusic.com |
Further Beyond Six Strings | All new music featuring the growing roster of artists affiliated with the Harp Guitar Music label, including for the first time Hirokatsu Takai, Antoine Dufour, Brad Hoyt, Dave Powell, Joachim Caiskl and Philippe Fouquet. |
Various Artists | Harp Guitar Dreams | The first all-new harp guitar compilation produced by Gregg Miner for Harp Guitar Music features 13 performers, many whom make their harp guitar recording debut on this CD - including Alex de Grassi, Don Alder, Carter Lancaster and Pete Bradshaw. |
Various Artists www.harpguitarmusic.com |
Beyond Six Strings | The inaugural release of Harp Guitar Music: The world's first harp guitar compilation CD - featuring members of our own harp guitar community! |
Various Artists www.harpguitarmusic.com |
Christmas Past: Holiday Harp Guitar Classics | Second release from Harp Guitar Music featuring Stephen Bennett, John Doan, William Eaton, Stacy Hobbs and Gregg Miner |
Alder, Don | Armed and Dangerous The Water is Wide: A Tribute to Stephen Bennett (with others) Further Beyond Six Strings (with others) Together Alone (with Brad Hoyt and others) Harp Guitar Dreams (with others) |
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Anderson, Alex |
Tree of Life | |
Anderson, Muriel |
Nightlight Daylight Christmas Present: Fingerstyle Harp Guitar Music (with others) Further Beyond Six Strings (with others) Harp Guitars Under the Stars New World Flamenco Together Alone (with Brad Hoyt and others) Harp Guitar Dreams Harp Guitar Christmas Wildcat Beyond Six Strings A Journey Through Time (limited pre-release) The Larsons' Creations |
"Stars" is a full CD of harp guitar duos with 20-string HG master, John Doan. "NWF" features the Tierro Negra flamenco duo, with Muriel playing harp guitar on a couple of tracks. "Christmas" includes only 1 6-string piece, the rest is all HG. "Wildcat" features 3 new HG pieces (2 instrumental, 1 vocal). On the special "Journey" CD, Muriel performs "Clarsah" on her Langjeans harp guitar. She also performed one song on a Dyer harp guitar for the CD included with The Larson Creations: Guitars & Mandolins by Robert Hartman. |
Andrews, Jim |
Pure
White Monday Turning Point Music for Doppelgitarre |
Jim plays a vintage German harp guitar. -FD |
Barnard, Tony | Music for Harp Guitar | |
Bellue, Adrian | Steppes | |
Bennett, Jim & Stephen |
The Water is Wide: A Tribute to
Stephen Bennett (with others) Brothers |
Stephen plays HG on 4 of the 12 tracks of Brothers. |
Bennett, Stephen
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Even More Beatles |
Aside from Cool Tunes for Harp Guitar, In-a-Gadda, Good Wood, and the two Harp Guitar CDs, which are all dedicated harp guitar albums, Stephen's albums are generally divided among six string, resonator, and harp guitar. He has used Wingert, Dyer, Merrill, and Spiller’s harp guitars. |
Bertsch, Tim www.timbertsch.com |
Passages Soul Resonance |
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Berwald, Larry |
The Water is Wide: A Tribute to
Stephen Bennett (with others) Beyond Six Strings Reflect On |
Reflect On has two (of fifteen) songs performed on harp guitar. They are "Stay Close to Me" by T. Emmanuel and "Jock O’Hazeldean (trad). Larry uses a Spiller’s harp guitar. -NB |
Blaustein, Nate www.nineteenstrings.com |
First | Nate plays a Hewett harp guitar with added super-trebles on all tracks. |
Bonfield, Ken kenbonfield.com |
Legacy | Ken plays an Alan Carruth harp guitar on several tracks. |
Bowman, Travis | Launch | |
Bradshaw, Pete | The Water is Wide: A Tribute to
Stephen Bennett (with others) Christmas Present: Fingerstyle Harp Guitar Music (with others) Together Alone (with Brad Hoyt and others) Harp Guitar Dreams (with others) |
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Brozman, Bob | Tone Poems III (with David
Grisman) Remembering the Songs of Our Youth (with the Tau Moe Family) Hello. Central...Give Me Dr. Jazz |
On Tone Poems III, Bob plays a Knutsen Harp-Hawaiian guitar. On the others, he plays rhythm guitar on a Dyer harp guitar on a track or two. |
Carney, Adam www.adamcarneymusic.com |
Eleventh Hour (with
Hora Once) Elizabeth |
Adam played a Lark in the Morning harp guitar on Elizabeth and a Woodley White on Eleventh Hour. |
Carter, Jason www.jasoncarter.net/ |
Seeking the Divine Falling In and Out of Time |
Jason plays a Sedgwick harp guitar on some of Time, and a Brunner OHG with trebles on Falling |
Conklin, Joe | With Friends Like These | |
Csaikl,
Joachim |
Christmas Present: Fingerstyle Harp
Guitar Music (with others) Further Beyond Six Strings (with others) |
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de Grassi, Alex www.degrassi.com |
Harp Guitar Dreams | |
Doan, John |
Into the Quiet Christmas Present: Fingerstyle Harp Guitar Music (with others) Together Alone (with Brad Hoyt and others) Harp Guitars Under the Stars A Celtic Pilgrimage Together Alone (with Brad Hoyt and others) Harp Guitar Dreams The Lost Music of Fernando Sor Christmas Past (with others) Beyond Six Strings Wayfarer Eire: Isle of the Saints Wrapped in White Remembrance Departures |
John Doan’s albums are 95% harp guitar, using his 20-string Sullivan/Elliott harp guitar. "Pilgrimage" features all solo harp guitar, while "Stars" features all harp guitar duets with Muriel Anderson. The Sor CD features the harpolyre, a close "harp guitar cousin." |
Doolin, Mike | The Water is Wide: A Tribute to
Stephen Bennett (with others) Christmas Present: Fingerstyle Harp Guitar Music (with others) Together Alone (with Brad Hoyt and others) |
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Dorsa, Marc |
Twilight’s Path |
Approximately 50% of the album is performed on "Kali," which is a Fred Carlson creation. She is a harp with two sub-bass strings. |
Doucette, Frank https://www.facebook.com |
The Water is Wide: A Tribute to
Stephen Bennett (with others) Christmas Present: Fingerstyle Harp Guitar Music (with others) Good Dogs, Bad Dogs, Best Friends (with Gregg Miner and others) |
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Dufour, Antoine | Sound Pictures Further Beyond Six Strings (with others) Convergences Together Alone (with Brad Hoyt and others) Still Strings |
Antoine plays his Noble harp guitar on 1 track each of these 3 CDs. |
Dunn, Michael & Ogilvie, Don www.michaeldunnguitars.com |
Djali to Django | ON 2 tracks, Michael plays a Knutsen-inspired nylon string harp guitar of his own making (seen in Gallery 3A) - |
Dupuis, Jamie | Tonalism | |
Dutcher, Bill |
Christmas Present: Fingerstyle Harp
Guitar Music (with others) Beyond Six Strings |
Bill uses a J. Thomas Davis harp guitar. -NB |
Eaton, William |
Christmas Past (with others)
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William plays his own creations which include a 26 String O’ele ‘n Strings and 31 stringed Lyre-Harp guitar. -NB |
Electric Harp Guitar Group www.william-eaton.com |
Electric Harp Guitar Group | William Eaton is joined by Anthony Mazzella and Fitzhugh Jenkins, the three guitarists playing a matched set of electric instruments designed by William. |
Faege, Charlie |
Imaginary Themes (3-CD set) | Charlie uses a Gibson harp guitar on this 3-volume album. -NB |
Fouquet, Philippe | Christmas Present: Fingerstyle Harp
Guitar Music (with others) Further Beyond Six Strings (with others) Turning Point Sophia |
Philippe plays several harp guitar solos on a Brunner OHG on Turning Point, and a vintage Kochendörfer harp guitar on 1 track on Sophia. |
Gambetta, Beppe | See Historical Music below. | See Historical Music below. |
Geeting, Doug talkeetnaalaska.com |
The Alaskan Mile | Doug's second CD “The Alaskan Mile," a vocal album, includes a Gibson used on two tracks. |
Glaude, Joesf www.jglaude.com |
Tales Of The G-string Perfect World |
Joesf plays his Morgan harp guitar on 3 tracks of Perfect World. |
Graham, Calum | Tabula Rosa | |
Greywolf, Echo |
Under a Lavender Moon |
Echo plays a Worland harp guitar. His first CD ("Acoustic Tales") is divided between regular 6-string and harp guitar. The Gathering Field and Under a Lavender Moon are all harp guitar. -NB |
Hasan, Iwan |
Beyond Six Strings Tot Licht! Discus 1st Gitar Klinik |
Discus 1st - released in Indonesia on cassette tape as well as in Italy on CD. The music is a mixture of rock and jazz with 20th century classical elements as well as traditional Indonesian influences. Gitar Klinik - a sampler of instrumental electric guitar music that includes the playing of Iwan Hasan on "Transcultural Echoes on 33 strings." This piece blends rock, jazz, classical and traditional Indonesian music and also the use of the harp guitar. - John Doan |
Havlicek, Peter | See Historical Music below. | See Historical Music below. |
Hedges, Michael www.rootwitch.com |
Live on the Double Planet (live versions
of "Because it's There" and "The Double Planet") |
Michael is mostly known for his use of the Dyer Harp guitar on "Because
its There" and "The Double Planet," both found on Live on the Double
Planet. But he also toured extensively with a Knutsen Seattle harp
guitar, and played the song "Torched" live on a harp guitar.
- NB |
Henke, Brian www.brianhenkeguitar.com |
The Nature of Light | Brian plays his custom one-of-a-kind "Dreamcaster" double-neck harp guitar on 4 cuts. |
Hill, Charlie www.charliehillguitar.com |
The Landing | Charlie plays a Merrill harp guitar solo for the last track. |
Hobbs, Stacy |
Together Alone (with Brad Hoyt and others) |
Stacy’s albums (listed here) are entirely performed on two Dyer harp guitars. -NB |
Holloway (Burwell), Scott https://www.facebook.com |
The Water is Wide: A Tribute to Stephen Bennett (with others) | |
Howe, Steve (see Taylor, Martin) |
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Hoyt, Brad |
Christmas Present: Fingerstyle Harp Guitar Music (with others) Further Beyond Six Strings (with others) Good Dogs, Bad Dogs, Best Friends (with Gregg Miner and others) Together Alone |
On Together Alone, Brad Hoyt plays piano in duets with several well-known harp guitarists, and plays this arpa viola capiera - his own harp guitar variant - on one track. |
Jackson,
Stephanie www.stephaniejackson.com |
Coming Home Hymns |
Stephanie plays a nylon-string terz harp guitar by Mike Brittain in several solos on each CD. |
Kardelen, Ali Deniz | First Steps | |
Kline, James |
See Historical Music below. | See Historical Music below. |
Klingler, John www.cdbaby.com/cd/klingler |
Record of a Moment | John plays a Lark in the Morning harp guitar on two tunes: "Whales" and "Something Wrong Here." |
Kush, Don |
Standalone | Don uses a Hewett harp guitar on one song for this album. -NB |
Larose, Martin www.martinlarose.com |
…Chemin St. Benoit | Martin plays an Alan Beardsell harp guitar on a couple tracks. |
Lancaster, Carter | The Water is Wide: A Tribute to
Stephen Bennett (with others) Good Dogs, Bad Dogs, Best Friends (with Gregg Miner and others) Together Alone (with Brad Hoyt and others) Case Closed Harp Guitar Dreams |
Case Closed features Dyer harp guitar on over half the album. |
LaVoie, Dan |
Cause & Effect Harp Guitar Dreams Beyond Six Strings Dan Lavoie |
Dan’s uses a Spiller’s harp guitar for all songs. -NB |
Lindley, David | (with Kaleidoscope) Beacon From Mars Side Trips |
David used a Gibson harp guitar on the groundbreaking group's first 2 albums in 1967! He tuned the sub-basses chordally. |
Loy, Eric |
Trajectories Wackazoid Catapult Counterpoint Guitar Solos |
Eric’s guitar was made by Mark Kaiser at Fret repair in Franklin, Ohio. He uses it for "Sincerely summons no witness" and "Spider in the Kings palace" on Catapult and 1 track on Wackazoid. -NB Eric also plays a Gibson harp guitar on 2 tracks of Counterpoint. - Don Adams |
Martin, Sean http://www.fretsfreak.com/ |
A Momentary Lapse Harp On It |
Sean plays Dyer and Knutsen harp guitars on these solos. |
McKee, Andy |
Live Book |
Joyland and Gates feature at least one harp guitar tune each. On Dreamcatcher Andy uses his Spiller’s harp guitar on four of the eleven songs. -NB |
Medley, Keith keithmedleymusic.com |
Ride | Keith plays his own 27-string harp guitar invention on all tracks. |
Miner, Gregg |
The Water is Wide: A Tribute to
Stephen Bennett (with others) Christmas Present: Fingerstyle Harp Guitar Music (with others) Further Beyond Six Strings (with others) Good Dogs, Bad Dogs, Best Friends (with special guests) Together Alone (with Brad Hoyt and others) Harp Guitar Dreams Christmas Past (with others) Beyond Six Strings A Christmas Collection, Vol 1 & 2 |
On the two Christmas Collection CDs, Gregg uses a family of six Knutsen harp instruments, a Dyer, two different Gibsons, a 12-bass Harwood, and a Swedish harp guitar by Klingberg. The 4 harp guitar tracks are duplicated on Christmas Past. Dogs features several harp guitar solos, plus guest appearances by other harp guitarists, including Stephen Bennett. |
Morgan, Joe Moran, David & Morgan, Joe |
The Water is Wide: A Tribute to
Stephen Bennett (with others) Good Dogs, Bad Dogs, Best Friends (with Gregg Miner and others) On Their Best Behavior |
David Moran plays hammered dulcimer while partner Joe Morgan plays a Sedgwick harp guitar. |
Oorts, Paul | Spring Will Come (Karen
Ashbrook) Carol of the Bells (Jody Marshall) |
Paul plays his Sedgwick harp guitar on 3 tracks (1, 2 & 10) of his wife, Karen Ashbrook's CD, and guests on Track 9 of Jody Marshall's Christmas CD. |
Nykken nykken.com/ |
Fager som en Ros | Verlene Schermer plays a Benoit Meulle-Stef 21-string harp guitar on 6 tracks. |
Peterstorfer, Harald www.haraldpeterstorfer.com |
Konigskinder | Harald plays one piece on a classical guitar with added super-trebles. |
Powell, Dave and/or
Rex James www.rexjames.com |
Further Beyond Six Strings (with
others) Engine 7 Acoustic Planet (custom CDR) |
Dave and Anthony Powell make up Rex James, using Anthony's hand-built harp guitars and harp mandolins. A few tracks with harp guitar (Dave) appear on each of these CDs. |
Profundkontra www.profundkontra.com |
UI | Harp guitarist Emmerich Haimer is one half of the duo Profundkontra, playing a Viennese harp guitar. |
Roane, Stephen www.facebook.com |
String Pieces, Volume Two | Stephen plays 2 tracks on a homemade harp guitar. |
Schwartz, Dan |
Guitar Meditations: Volume 2 Acoustic Relaxation |
On
Acoustic Relaxation, Dan plays a Charles Hoffman 5-sub-bass Dyer style
harp guitar on 5 tracks in combination with
other instruments (most also played by Dan). -FD
Guitar Meditations features 2 new tracks featuring harp guitar, plus a new harp guitar version of a previous released tune. |
Sharmat, Craig www.scoredog.tv |
Bleu Horizons | Craig plays a Woodley White harp guitar on 3 tracks. |
Shinness, Tom |
Christmas Present: Fingerstyle Harp Guitar Music (with
others) |
Translucent Harp has 8 solo harp guitar songs performed on a "10+6" Gibson which is half the album. The other half uses an extremely wide variety of acoustic instruments. Escape (intended for "relaxation") primarily features the Gibson, with echo. Many Waters has one solo harp guitar piece, with HG also used on 3 other tracks . -NB/GM |
Stevenson, Kevin | Christmas Favorites for Harp Guitar | Kevin plays a Dyer copy made by Steve Brown of Fullerton, CA. |
Takai, Hirokatsu (Moheji) |
The Water is Wide: A Tribute to Stephen Bennett (with others) Further Beyond Six Strings (with others) |
Hiro plays his own custom-made koto harp guitar. |
Taylor, Martin |
Masterpiece Guitars (with Steve Howe) Tone Poems II (with David Grisman) |
Martin plays a Gibson Style U on one track of Tone Poems II. On Masterpiece Guitars, he and Howe multi-track many of the late Scott Chinery's harp guitars on the last track, unfortunately making it difficult to hear all the (presumably wonderful) individual instruments. |
Thomas, Matt www.myspace.com/mattthomasguitar |
The Struggle | Matt plays a Merrill harp guitar on 3 tracks. |
Titus, Jeff |
Together Alone (with Brad Hoyt and others)
Harp Guitar Dreams Wood Dragon |
Jeff plays his Fred Carlson Harp-Sympitar on several tracks of his debut album. |
Vandenberg, Fred |
Off | Fred plays his unique 33-course harp guitar, made by Michael Menkevich of Philadelphia on two tracks. -GM, NB |
Verdery, Benjamin |
Some Towns and Cities | A concept CD featuring other artists. Verdery plays a Dyer harp guitar on "San Francisco, CA." |
Wahl, Simon www.simonwahl.com |
déjà vu | Includes 3 tracks on a Sedgwick harp guitar. |
Wahlberg, Andy |
String Theory |
Andy uses either a Dyer or his Eddie Vila harp guitar for all his compositions and arrangements. |
Weijters, Melle | When the Caged bird Sings | Melle plays a vintage Gibson HG on 3 tracks of the album. |
Werner, Adam www.adamwerner.com |
Signatures | Adam plays his Lark in the Morning on two tunes. |
Winston, George |
The Renaissance Album (1 track on Windham Hill compilation) Kolonahe by Keola Beamer (1 track) |
On these recordings and DVD below, George plays either a Martin with a retrofitted 7th floating "C" string, or a custom 8-string Erwin Somogyi harp guitar (2 floating sub-basses). These are tuned for, and used mainly for Slack Key music. |
Yasuda, Morihiko |
Born in the Air I Hear the Wind Singing a Song |
Morihiko plays Uchida harp guitars, inspired by John Doan's instrument. On Born in the Air (a compilation CD) he appears on 1 track on an "18-string Mignon Harp Guitar." On I hear the Wind (his debut album) he performs three solos on a 24-string concert harp guitar. |
Zekley, Mickie & Elizabeth Clark |
Fiona’s Folly Mooncoin |
Mickie plays a Dyer harp guitar on 2 tracks each of Fiona's Folly and Mooncoin. Mickie pointed out that the sub-basses are used on "The Doleful King Of The Ghosts" on the former. |
Aerial Acoustics www.aerialweb.com |
Myriad | Features 1 track (Nightime Conversation) with Dorothy Wagner playing accompaniment on the late Scott Chinery's Dyer Style 8. |
DeGruy, Phil |
Just
Duet Hello Dali Innuendo Out the Other |
Phil calls his instrument the "guitarp" - "a marriage between 7-string guitar (high A) and 10 short strings tuned in the upper register of a harp. (He) commissioned Jimmy Foster of New Orleans to build the first guitarp in 1983. In 1997, West Coast luthier Ralph Novak redesigned and built deGruy's present guitarp employing Novak's fanned-fret system." |
Donahue, Tim |
Christmas Present: Fingerstyle Harp Guitar Music (with
others) |
On his three earliest recordings, Tim plays an electric fretless harp guitar of his own design and creation. Voices in the Wind features a "fretless MIDI harp guitar," and Into the Light lists only a Gibson harp guitar. |
Green, Todd |
Celebration |
Todd uses the 26 string Harpouditar (another Carlson creation) for the harp guitar songs on his albums. -NB |
Les Mouvements | Les Mouvements | Les Mouvements is Christophe Godbille on fretless guitars (including a Tim Donahue fretless harp guitar on 5 tracks) and Pierre Rettien on drums. |
Metheny, Pat |
Pat Metheny Trio>Live |
Pat has used two harp guitars in his career - a "15-string"
Gibson and Linda Manzer's "pikasso" guitar, created specifiaclly
for Pat. He has recorded one solo on the latter - "Into the
Dream" on Imaginary Day (studio) and PM Trio>Live (live
version). It also appears on 1 or 2 ensemble tracks on Imaginary
Day, Quartet and Secret Story. |
Sobol, Joseph |
In the Deep Heart's Core (Cast a Cold Eye: Vol 2 of Songs From the Poetry of W.B.Yeats) |
10-string cittern player Sobol plays his Dyer harp guitar on 4 tracks of this album of Yeats' poetry set to new music. |
Spolia, Rajan www.snakemusic.8m.com CDs available from: www.nightcafe.co.uk |
Good Fortune |
From Rajan: "The guitar in question is a one off that I commissioned to be built by Oakwood instruments (see Luthiers page - GM). It is the only one in existence. The sympathetic strings are strummed sometimes and the tuning varies depending on the Raga I'm playing at the time. At present I have one set tuned to: D E F G A Bb C# D and the other set to: D E F# G# A B C# D. I have only recorded 1 album with it - Good Fortune (my latest) and all the tracks use this guitar." |
The Tea Party |
The Edges of Twilight |
Lead guitarist Jeff Martin uses a 1916 Gibson harp guitar on "The Badger" and "Shadows On The Mountainside" - but I am not convinced that he plays any of the sub-bass strings. He is also seen on the band's DVD playing the latter song on the Gibson. The Canadian band has numerous other albums - inclusion of harp guitar on those is unknown. - GM (thanks to Stephen Sedgwick) |
Boni, Simona | Luigi Mozzani: opere per chitarra | Simona's research on Mozzani led to
her world premiere recording of Mozzani’s “Opera
for Guitar”. The one arm Mozzani chitarra lyra (“lyre” harp guitar
with 3 sub-bass strings) used on the recording once belonged to Sara
Stegani, a leading student of Mozzani. -FD Note: This work is for 6-string guitar, and the sub-bass strings are not utilized (other than sympathetically). |
Cinelli, Dennis with
Patrick O'Brien www.cinellimusic.com |
Two Guitars in Vienna: Guitar Duets of Johann Kaspar Mertz | Dennis performs Romantic music on copy of the 1856 Scherzer "10-string guitar." |
David, Andreas with Brauneis,
Katja www.musiker-andreas-david.de/ |
Servus Wien | Andreas plays a 6-bass Viennese harp guitar to accompany Katja in traditional Viennese song. |
Deschenes, Jean musillusion/products Musillusion inc. Société de musique viennoise du Québec 10325 Christophe-Colomb Montréal (Québec) H2C 2V1 CANADA |
Viennese Telegramme (features
Ensemble Strauss-Lanner, Ensemble Johann Schrammel, Trio Kaffeehaus) Musik à la Schrammel (Ensemble Johann Schrammel) Im Kaffeehaus (Trio Kaffehaus) Christmas in the Alps (T.K.) Strauss-Schubert-Lanner in Grinzing (T.K.) Bouquet (Transatlantik Schrammel) |
Based in Montreal, Jean plays the "contraguitar (bass guitar with 15 strings)" in several groups, including: Ensemble Johann Schrammel, Trio Kaffeehaus, and Transatlantik Schrammel. - GM, MS |
Doan, John |
The Lost Music of Fernando Sor | John plays the rare 1830 harpolyre, a close "harp guitar cousin," in the first recording of Sor's works for the instrument. |
Duo Stadlmayr-Kroupa
Document Records, Vienna, Austria |
Vol. 1-Konzert Im Wiener Jazzl Live Beim Waidacker Im Liebhar Vol. 2-Live Konzert Im Wiener |
A Viennese duo featuring accordion and schrammel guitar. 99% vocal (harmonies with passionate vibrato). |
Fleischlinger, Karel www.fleischlinger.cz |
Souvenir Romantique | Karel plays a romantic guitar with 2 floating basses on this CD. |
Gambetta, Beppe |
Traversata Serenata |
Beppe is a modern flat-picker, but also authentically recreates early 1900s Italian harp guitar music with partner Carlo Aonzo. Beppe plays a 14-course Antonello Saccu harp guitar on Traversata with David Grisman & Carlo, and a 10-course Saccu on Serenata with Carlo. |
Havlicek, Peter | Alles Gute! (with
Traude Holzer) Kronjuwelen (as part of Neue Wiener Concert Schrammeln) Zamona (as part of Neue Wiener Concert Schrammeln) Tanz (as part of Neue Wiener Concert Schrammeln) Rejodelt (guest with the group Mischwerk) |
Peter plays Schrammelgitarre (traditional Viennese harp guitar) in several ensembles. |
Hawkins, Tyler | Bach on Seventeen Strings | Tyler plays a unique 17-string harp guitar that was conceptualized by Toronto guitar instructor/composer Ted Lebar and built by Canadian luthier Sergei de Jonge. |
Kline, James |
Christmas Present:
Fingerstyle Harp Guitar Music (with others) Further Beyond Six Strings (with others) A Feather Upon the Shore (with Bardou) Beyond Six Strings Bardou Troubadour's Odyssey Music of the Lost Cathedral Baroque Music Renaisance and Celtic Music |
James plays an 11-string arch guitar, which he designed based on ideas of arch guitar innovator Peter Blanchette. It combines the lutes and guitars from the 16th thru 18th centuries. He has also added an attachable body section with treble strings! His recordings cover a wide range of historical music, with some arrangements leaning towards contemporary. |
Marasco, Riccardo | Il Bacchino Il Porcellino Canti Popolari Toscani L'ammucchiata Vecchia Toscana Ma Firenze la Cognoschi Pace Non Piu' Guerra La Tradizione Toscana - Live (VHS Video) |
Riccardo uses two different 3-bass harp guitars, a Mozzani ("the legendary lyra guitar "Ala di aquila" ["Eagle's Wing"] that did belong to Italo Meschi"), and a unlabeled instrument "dated 1870."
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Mendle, Jon yogaofmusic.tripod.com |
L'Infidele | Jon performs on an 11-string arch-guitar made by Alan Perlman. |
Neuwirth, Roland & Extremschrammeln |
Guat Drauf |
Roland is "the most popular player of Viennese Schrammel Music. However, Neuwirth and his group - (two violines, one "Kontragitarre", "Knöpferl" Harmonica - a special kind of accordeon - one vocal) consistently reinvent the genre, never getting stuck in tradition. If need be, they integrate aspects of Blues, Funk, Jazz or Rock´n Roll - all accompanied with lyrics in typical Viennese dialect." |
Schneiderman, John (with Oleg Timofeyev on Czar's Guitars) |
The Russian Guitar 1800-1850 |
John is a virtuoso player of all forms of lute, and also plays a 7-string guitar (Coste's "floating 7th bass string"-style instrument) on this recording. Czar's Guitars features Russian harp guitar on several tracks. |
Smits, Raphaella |
Early 19th Century Guitar Music | Raphaella plays a c.1830 Mirecourt "romantic guitar" with a floating 7th string. The material includes virtuoso works by Legnani and Mertz. |
Timofeyev, Oleg (with John
Schneiderman) www.semistrunka.com |
The Russian Guitar 1800-1850 The Czar's Guitars: Souvenirs of Russia |
Czar's Guitars features Russian harp guitar on several tracks. |
Torosian, Brian https://www.facebook.com |
Christmas Present: Fingerstyle Harp Guitar Music (with others) | |
Various Artists http://www.trikont.com/catalogue/223_schrammeln/223_schrammeln.html |
Schrammeln: Soul Music of Old Vienna | This compilation CD available from Trikont features 12 ensembles: LannerQuartett, StrohmayerQuartett, TrocaderoEnsemble, WaldschnepfenTerzett, Schrammelquartett Pepi Wichart, MaximQuartett, Original Wiener Trio, Wiener PiccoloDuett, ZitherQuartett RuppKrause, Quartett Lenz, Neuwirth Extremschrammeln, Soul Music of old Vienna. |
The Vienna Thalia Quartet |
Music from OLD VIENNA I + II | This group, featuring Heinz Hromada on "Bass-Guitar" (or "Contra-Guitar"), has recorded two CD's of authentic Schrammelmusik. Check out their full list of audio samples. |
Vliet, Ari van | Napoléon Coste | Performed on a Bernhard Kresse reproduction of a Lacote heptachord. |
Zaczek, Brigette | Romantic Guitar II Romantic Guitar |
On these 2 CDs, Brigette plays 3 rare romantic guitars with either 1 or 2 floating sub-bass strings - a Lacote and Stauffer (used on 8 Coste selections on Vol II), and a Ries (4 selections by Coste, Schubert/Mertz and Strauss/Mertz on Vol I). |
Bo, César
Golden Era CD G.E.15
available from: |
César Bo: 11 string Guitar, 1955 | César plays 26 tracks on an "11-string guitar," with 8 strings on the neck and 3 floating. See Players for additional information. |
Butin, Roy H.
Golden Era CD G.E.21
available from: |
On CD:
Classical Mandolin Orchestras & Solos, 1904-1938 |
Roy accompanies two American mandolin virtuosos on a harp guitar (likely a Dyer): 2 tracks by Samuel Siegel, and 3 tracks by Valentine Abt. |
78s by Valentine Abt
Manzanillo
(Robyn, Arr. Abt), with Roy H. Butin
on harp-guitar. Victor 78 rpm record, #16005-A, Sweet Memories (Abt), with Roy H. Butin on harp-guitar. Victor 78 rpm, #16005-B, August 5, 1908 Artists’
Valse (Abt). Score written but unpublished. Recorded with Roy H.
Butin on harp-guitar. Victor 78 rpm, #5590, Artists’
Valse (Abt). Score written but unpublished. Recorded with Roy H.
Butin on harp-guitar. Victor 78 rpm (reissue) #16055-A, originally
recorded |
78 recordings information Copyrighted (C) 2003 by Dr. John L. Abt in "The Biography of Valentine Abt: Mandolin and Harp Virtuoso, Composer, and Teacher, 1873-1942" ISBN: 0972173668 | |
Cammarato, G.
Rounder Records |
Italian String Virtuosi | Two 1929 recordings (Ricordi and Tu Sei La Sola) by this player appear on this Rounder compilation CD. Cammarato is clearly using a harp guitar, though it is not credited (a low D and B are used, with the guitar tuned near a=-435 Hz). -GM (thanks to Tony Klein) |
Galimberti, Federico
Golden Era CDs G.E.1
& G.E.16 available from: |
Classical Guitar 78 RPM
recordings, 1912-1941 Gut String Virtuosos, 1925-1943 |
Galimberti plays a Luigi Mozzani chitarra lyra ("lyre" harp guitar) on 2 tracks on G.E.1 and 1 track on G.E.16. See Players for additional information. |
Kalama's Quartet
available from Cord International |
Early Hawaiian Classics | The quartet featured Bob Nawahine on harp-guitar. |
Moore,
Sam & Davis, Horace |
"My Old Hawaiian Home-Waltz" /" Isle Of Sweethearts-Waltz" | (Date?) 78 recording featuring Octo-Chorda and Harp-Guitar. |
Ossman-Dudley Trio
available from Amazon.com |
From Cake-Walk
to Ragtime Stomp and Swerve G.E.31: Vess L. Ossman, 5-String Banjo 1910-1916 |
Banjoist Vess Ossman's group included harp guitarist Dudley. These 3 Compilations each include 1 or 2 songs by the trio. |
Taraffo, Pasquale Released on CD by sugarmusic.com. |
O Reua | Pasquale Taraffo was a virtuoso harp guitarist and composer from Genova, Italy. He lived from 1887 to 1937. I believe the recordings on this CD would have been made in the late 1920s or early 1930s. The sound quality is quite good for recordings from that era. The first 11 tracks on the CD are harp guitar solos. Tracks 12-18 are duos with his brother Pietro. Tracks 19 and 20 include Pietro and a mandolinist. Tracks 23 and 24 seem to include Pietro on harmonica. - FD |
Troupe Fattorusso
Rounder Records |
Italian String Virtuosi | On the same compilation CD as Cammarato above, this group performs two tracks (Piedigrotta and 'E Casacavalle) with violin, mandolin and (uncredited) harp guitar. |
Stephen Bennett |
Over 50 harp guitar tabs of Stephen's compositions and arrangements have now been published | Available from www.harpguitar.com |
John Doan | Offers tablature of much of his harp guitar music | Available from www.johndoan.com |
Michael Hedges | Because It's There tab | Available from www.stropes.com |
Michael Hedges | Chava's Song tab & other Hedges harp guitar material | Available from www.rootwitch.com |
Andy McKee | Dreamcatcher Songbook Includes CD and VCD (Tab of 4 harp guitar songs composed or arranged by Andy) |
Available from www.andymckee.com |
A. Holmgren, 1894
Valda Sanger for Guitarr Includes two pieces for harp guitar accompaniment. One includes a low open D. |
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Josef Fahrbach, Vienna
Studies for 6 and 12-string guitar (12-course harp guitar with 6 sub-basses) |
Anderson, Muriel |
A Guitarscape Planet | Distributed by Concert Hot Spot |
Bennett, Stephen | Harp Guitar Repertoire Harp Guitar Basics Stephen Bennett: Live! Harp Guitar Artistry |
Distributed by Mel Bay |
Doan, John | Celtic Pilgrimage Primal Twang In Search of the Harp Guitar PBS Christmas Special Live solo harp guitar |
"Primal Twang" features 3 songs
(1 on Harpolyre) and Interview with John "In Search of" produced by Fisher-King |
Hedges, Michael | Windham Hill in Concert | Michael performs "Because It's There." - Don Adams |
Loy, Eric | Guitar Antics | Includes a couple selections on his Mark Kaiser harp-guitar, in new 3-camera studio footage and one repeated at a live show. |
Metheny, Pat | Speaking of Now Live | Pat does a piece on his Manzer Pikasso. |
Winston, George | Seasons In Concert | George plays 3 selections on his 8-string Erwin Somogyi harp guitar (2 floating sub-basses). These are tuned and used for Slack Key music. |
Shanachie, 2000 | Times Ain't Like They Used To Be | Features brief footage of a group that greets FDR at a train station ca. World War II in this PBS documentary. The guitarist plays a Gibson harp guitar, with the bass headstock smack in front of FDR's face. As is often the case with historical players, he does not play the sub-basses. |
Music on Earth, 2003 | Julian Bream: My Life in Music | In the Special Features, Bream very briefly discusses his Maccaferri harp guitar, and a still photograph is shown. |
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