Category: Contemporary Luthiers

Dave Powell, the Leo Kottke of the Harp Guitar

Mar 4, 2011

Obviously I’m stuck in a title rut…last one, I promise (maybe). This would be Dave...

Mar 1, 2011

That would be Brad Hoyt. The Arpa Viola Caipira (or “AVC” for short) is, as you...

Feb 23, 2011

Alan Beardsell up in Canada makes one cool-looking harp guitar. Only 2 or 3 built so far I...

Feb 22, 2011

Ahh, my irrepressible Title puns… This one is in reference to a fellow named Keith Medley – a new,...

Feb 8, 2011

Yes, Schrammel guitars – our Viennese “Dyer cousins” – the kontragitares...

Jan 31, 2011

Saturday, to coincide with a Stephen Bennett concert near San Clemente, home of both Holloway Harp...

Jan 28, 2011

Well, Knutsen would of course be Johan Christian Kammen (Chris), the inventor of our American...

Jan 22, 2011

This will get me (and thus, you) pretty much up-to-date with the latest harp guitar discoveries...

Jan 21, 2011

Well, he does! Brand name, that is. Nate Blaustein just got his Hewett harp guitar back from a...

Jan 15, 2011

After dropping SB off, my first order of unfinished business was to try to hook up with Michi...