Category: Gibson

Orville’s Harp Guitars

Aug 28, 2015

I’m speaking of course of Orville Gibson…and the rarest of the rare: harp guitars he...

Jul 19, 2015

Boston Day 4-6 Last night, the American Musical Instrument Society conference got off to a great...

Jul 12, 2015

Boston, Day 1 & 2 After nine days in Europe – our Genoa stay, then three days in Mulhouse – I...

Feb 7, 2015

Yes, I looked it up and they’re real words. And just the words to describe Gibson’s harp guitars...

Nov 28, 2014

The current Harp Guitar of the Month – another one-of-a-kind instrument – got me thinking again of...

Jul 18, 2014

For those who may wonder where all this historical harp guitar information comes from, the answer...

Jun 24, 2014

Like many of you, I’m a huge fan of early Gibson aesthetics, the more scrolls and points...

Apr 13, 2014

I just received photos of a hilarious (but ingenious) experimental instrument created by new...

Feb 23, 2014

Flipping through the February 2014 Vintage Guitar magazine the other day at the newsstand, I ran...

Feb 1, 2014

Exactly one year ago, I published the special Harpguitars.net article Black Harp Guitar Players in...