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Finally finished collating all my Truax info. I find them fascinating. Were they built by the Larson brothers in Chicago? My guess is yes. What we need next is to examine the sole labeled specimen and its twin. Meanwhile, see what you think! TRUAX HARP GU

Greetings, Musicians, Scholars, Collectors and Nerds! Once again, I managed to capture enough photos to share my personal experience at the American Musical Instrument Society meeting this May 2026 in Vermillion, SD. This will be only a snapshot (tho stil

Our tireless Russian correspondent Ilya Kryzhanovskiy continues to supply Harpguitars.net with wonderful harp guitar images of the late 1800s & early 1900s from his country. Here, I catch up with his last four years of fascinating finds. Ilya won't quite

Please enjoy the new monograph - it was a blast to research and create!

A Little Bit o' Karma. I have no idea how such things work in the universe, though try to remember to spread the good variety - as I've seemed to have more than my fair share. Like this one. Before Harpguitars.net, there was just my "Knutsen Archives" (a

What in the world? Are you telling me that I missed a harp guitar patent for this site?! Actually, no. But for a moment, it sure seemed like I did! In early 2026, an instrument surfaced in London at the Gardiner-Houlgate auction house and soon made the ro

Greetings, readers and harp guitar/music aficionados! It's time to formally announce The Harp Guitar Foundation Archival Project. This is something that I've been thinking about for some time, and, thanks to some significant donations over the years, we w

The above book was recently released by new colleague Goffredo Plastino, a musicologist at Newcastle University in London. In it, he shares postcards from his collection that feature "Neapolitan" bands - that word in quotes because this guise of romantic

Readers undoubtedly enjoy hearing others' experiences at the Harp Guitar Gatherings, rather than just my own, so I always invite anyone who attended to submit their own response to the event. Here is Dave Powell's, the fellow seen in all the images above.