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I was still speaking about harp guitars for the 3000 (minimum) number. Mandobasses likely less by a a fair percentage.

There's my c.1931 black one (bought at Gryphon about 1988): https://www.minermusic.com/inst_list.htm#mandolins
Acousticmusic.org has a brown one in their shop collection in CT not too far from my...

Absolutely, Mike and Sue. I didn't know about that (valuable) section...and still not sure how to easily find that here. Sorry, out of the loop. I'm years behind on my harp guitar site, let alone...

Greetings all. I couldn't locate a recent H-O thread to include this on, so creating a new post here - the goal just to get this archived somewhere besides my office. I stumbled on this yesterday...

Sheri, that is incredible news about the descendant. For this kind of thing to happen, I find that you have to hit "print!" at the publishers. The second you can't undo it - THAT'S when the next...

Greetings, all. Just found this thread, which is good, as the fellow who bought it is a collector friend of mine, Reed Bennett. He doesn't have an account here, so asked me to share pics and says...

I believe it's almost certainly a Harmony built instrument on the Harmony/Schultz patent D45968. That clever "out-to-beat-Gibson" finger rest is the Albert Shutt giveaway. The latest development in...

PS: I almost forgot - I'm doing my own little video series about the museum (each is just a minute or two). Today's will include harp-mandos briefly, and we showed a couple (pretty damn cool ones) in...

Hey all - a few things:
1) Wow, what a surprise, Bob! I promise to carve out time to watch this asap (took a quick look - thanks for the mention!). Thanks for doing this.
2) Re "mandolinetto." You...

One small detail...it's the mandola. One of the 5 known - see my article here: https://www.harpguitars.net/history/dyer/Dyer-Harp-Mandolins-Gregg-Miner-web.pdf

For those who haven't seen an A2...this is Mike's, with the baffle. I call this a "jet black, likely-harmony-built" instrument.
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Ooops, forgot to mention!...it's an A2.

THIS is interesting, and first I've heard of such a thing with these instruments. I'd love to hear from any Shutt owners who have seen this feature. It's owned by Mike Lettieri who just emailed me...

Thanks, Martin! Folks can listen to all the tunes for free (the new musician's business model) at all the usual places. I also have tons of physical copies left - FREE for any friends here at the...

For those looking for more, I encouraged Sheri to continue. So she wrote for Harpguitars.net a wonderful story about the Calamaras. I then used that as an excuse to update all my many Joseph Bohmann...

Good question, David...you'll find the answer in the article.

For those mandolin aficionados who have been wondering what to do with themselves for an entire year with NO Harpguitars.net article on the Dyer Harp Mandolin, you can all breathe easy. The new...

Hi, Jim – Yeah, I sold that Newton way back and a couple Tonedevils – the last one of their new ones in 2016. They’re copied from my black Knutsen, and sound fairly similar. I tend to play the the...

OK, gang: I did it: http://harpguitars.net/blog/2016/06/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-harwood-harp-guitars-but-were-afraid-to-ask/
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Hah! Sorry about that...I see the "Special Museum Edition" FJ excerpt does say "Spring 2006" (their official format). I remember now that's why they let/had the Museum do the teaser, as the issue...

Hi JenH - If you're scholar material, I'd love to see someone continuing our work! I assume you have the FJ Spring 2006 with our article in it? I have a few copies left (the Museum handout version...

For those of you who haven't seen it, 2 years ago, I condensed all my Coulter info (harp guitars, but also a sampling of all instruments) into a new archive. Please email me privately with anything...

Surely this is the same instrument a fellow (no name) emailed me about last month...(there couldn't be two!)...I'm waiting answers from both parties. Like, uh, what's the size and scale. Very...

Hey all. I located the 1907/1908 catalog and got the pages I wanted from my very generous friend Lynn Wheelwright.
So here's the new beast:...

Hello all. I'm preparing a new Harwood update (I really need to do a whole rewrite, but who has time?!) - and wonder if anyone has heard who might have snagged the last two recent eBay Jenkins...