Time to catch up on several months of new instruments out there! Turns out there’s so much, I’m going to split this into 2 blogs…
First, a reminder to everyone commissioning or building a new harp guitar project to please send me photos and info (or a link) for inclusion on . It’s hard to keep up with all the activity out there! I generally add all of these instruments permanently to the site
– be it an entry for your business on the Luthier page, one of the many Galleries, or at the very least, this blog. Also – feel free to update me on your status (such as when you think we should add you to the Luthier page, or move up the page from the “occasional” to “dedicated” section).
Hotel California (guitar Tab)
Second, this quick sidebar: They say that “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” I don’t necessarily buy that, otherwise I wouldn’t rant so vociferously about Tropical Moon appropriating “intellectual property” (original designs by Mike Doolin, Steve Sedgwick and others). In a similar vein, luthiers attempting their first harp guitar might want to consider the option of
From your favorite harp guitar inventor/designer. At the very least, it couldn’t hurt to show your appreciation and respect by communicating your intentions (adapting, copying features, etc.). I know that this (licensing or permission) has occurred in the past, but I also know that in other cases,
As I post this, the Holy Grail Guitar Show is debuting in Berlin. I hope someone sends a report of harp guitar activity there. I know at least threebuilders will be there, I’m hoping for other surprises as well. Steve Sedgwick and Michel Pellerin both had to pass on our own HGG12 festival in order to attend the Berlin event, so I wish them all the best (but don’t make it a habit!).
Hotel California (instrumental Version)
) is for a fellow he met at the first European harp guitar festival. The super-trebles make it a true harp guitar, the basses are configured over a neck so that they can be played harp guitar style, capoed or even played like a fretless bass.
) is currently in the hands of Steve Silva in Waltham, MA. Made with flamed Makore back and sides with salvaged bearclaw sitka top. His old friend Frank Doucette tells me it sounds fantastic – big and open.
From the quick video he posted, it appears to sound wonderful, and he’s pretty excited about joining our ranks. I’ll be adding him shortly to our Luthier page.
Harp Guitar Gathering 13: A First Timer's Experience
I don’t know if Thierry Andre of Montreal has seen Keith’s instrument or not, but he came up with his own extensions-on-both-sides idea recently (above). P.S: Looks like he’ll be at the Holy Grail show as well.
That Alistair Hay (Emerald Guitars) was able to configure his carbon fiber HG for added supers! (above) A custom project for Joe Conklin.
Art Davis of San Diego was (is?) hoping to “create a fully researched top-level instrument that could be repeatable” (above). The harp assembly is mounted with screws to the reinforced side of the guitar.
Stream Hotel California
Back to more normal harp guitars, I mentioned a while back that Candyrat artist Calum Graham had commissioned his first harp guitar from Canadian Charles Shifflett (Shifflett’s second HG, 25 years later!). Calum (
My public harp guitar life continues to be a major win-win. continues to draw new builders, players and instruments like moths to a flame, and one of the best perks of Harp Guitar Music is the incredible diversity of customers – amateur to professional – who buy strings and instrument plans. So I often get to see new “secret” instruments in an unfinished state, or receive photos of just-completed instruments. It always gives me great pleasure to read “This is the harp guitar that we made with your strings!” Here are a few:
Creator and Editor of Gregg Miner has been fascinated by harp guitars since the early 1970s. He purchased his first instrument (a 1916 red sunburst Gibson) in 1983, then fell in love with the harp guitars of Chris Knutsen when he found his first one in 1988. He collects harp guitars, researches harp guitars, writes about harp guitars, plays harp guitars, produces harp guitar CDs, buys and sells harp guitars, and currently runs , Harp Guitar Music and the Harp Guitar Foundation. You would think that by now he would be sick of harp guitars, but he is not.
I've Found This Guitar Underneath My Bed, Can Anyone Tell Me What It's Called?
I don’t know if Thierry Andre of Montreal has seen Keith’s instrument or not, but he came up with his own extensions-on-both-sides idea recently (above). P.S: Looks like he’ll be at the Holy Grail show as well.
That Alistair Hay (Emerald Guitars) was able to configure his carbon fiber HG for added supers! (above) A custom project for Joe Conklin.
Art Davis of San Diego was (is?) hoping to “create a fully researched top-level instrument that could be repeatable” (above). The harp assembly is mounted with screws to the reinforced side of the guitar.
Stream Hotel California
Back to more normal harp guitars, I mentioned a while back that Candyrat artist Calum Graham had commissioned his first harp guitar from Canadian Charles Shifflett (Shifflett’s second HG, 25 years later!). Calum (
My public harp guitar life continues to be a major win-win. continues to draw new builders, players and instruments like moths to a flame, and one of the best perks of Harp Guitar Music is the incredible diversity of customers – amateur to professional – who buy strings and instrument plans. So I often get to see new “secret” instruments in an unfinished state, or receive photos of just-completed instruments. It always gives me great pleasure to read “This is the harp guitar that we made with your strings!” Here are a few:
Creator and Editor of Gregg Miner has been fascinated by harp guitars since the early 1970s. He purchased his first instrument (a 1916 red sunburst Gibson) in 1983, then fell in love with the harp guitars of Chris Knutsen when he found his first one in 1988. He collects harp guitars, researches harp guitars, writes about harp guitars, plays harp guitars, produces harp guitar CDs, buys and sells harp guitars, and currently runs , Harp Guitar Music and the Harp Guitar Foundation. You would think that by now he would be sick of harp guitars, but he is not.
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