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	Gruhn Gibson Harp Guitar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Gibson had big plans for the harp guitar in the early years of the 20th century.
		The harp guitar offered a solution in the form of extra open strings, tuned usually in a chromatic progression, that provided a resonant bass note for any chord.
		And that, along with the extra expense of a harp guitar, not to mention the inconvenience of carrying around such a large guitar, kept the harp guitar from fulfilling Gibson's expectations.
	www.gruhn.com /features/harp1915/AR3705.html (213 words)

	Harp Guitar Home
		Aside from his work on the six-string guitar, Stephen is also one of the world's premiere performers on the Harp Guitar, an instrument he indirectly inherited from his great-grandfather.
		The image of Stephen Bennett embracing his harp guitar is the one that tends to linger.
		The fact that Stephen is only too happy to champion the cause of the harp guitar may inadvertently obscure his abilities on the six-string instrument.
	www.harpguitar.com /home.htm (339 words)

	Muriel Anderson's Harp Requinto
		Muriel Anderson was looking for a harp guitar that would be practical to take on the road - an instrument of reasonable size and weight, and with nylon strings.
		She specified that the scale length be that of a 66 cm classical guitar capoed at the 3rd fret.
		I designed the levers to be engaged with either hand, so she could change the pitches of the harp strings with her left hand while playing them with her right, or engage a lever with her righ hand while holding a chord on the neck with her left.
	www.doolinguitars.com /harprequ.html (426 words)

	Charles A. Hoffman Hancrafted Guitars
		Of greater interest, a customer who collects harp guitars brought in his latest acquisition - a Dyer harp guitar which was presumably made very early in the company's history.
		The old Dyer Harp guitars had an elaborately curved block to accommodate the side of the harp extension.
		There is more progress on the harp guitars, but it will be largely shown on the pages relating to building a guitar.
	www.hoffmanguitars.com /harp_guitar.htm (501 words)

	Electric-harp Guitar Group
		Harp guitars have been around for about one hundred years but, the shape and design of these guitars are completely unique to William's imagination and artistry.
		The 18-string electric harp guitar has an extended guitar scale neck that is approximately two inches longer than a regular electric guitar.
		The guitar is a combined 4 string bass and 6 string guitar made of African zebrawood and ebony.
	www.sedonacreativelife.com /pre0327.html (2253 words)

	Harp Guitar Patents
		Gaskins' patent pictures a harp mandolin, and he labels it a "mandolin-harp." Yet it is titled "Stringed Musical Instrument," and the summation of the patent specifies only "stringed instrument" - the implication being that the concept could be applied to guitars and other fretted instruments.
		It appears to be an unusual harp guitar with the "harp" strings (theoretically sub-bass, as they would be slightly longer than the standard strings) on the treble side of the guitar neck.
		There are some sort of depressions for the guitar strings to disappear into (how they avoid their own frets is a mystery), and the mandolin string bank rides partially above the guitar strings, this to provide string bank separation for the picking hand.
	www.harpguitars.net /history/patents.htm (4287 words)

	Gibson Harp Guitar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This guitar was made in 1916 which was the last year the founder of Gibson personally oversaw the production of thee guitars.
		Gibson was not the only maker of harp guitars; Carl Knutsen designed a flat top harp guitar, and the Larson Bros. perfected his design.
		the harp guitar would be to the guitar what the piano was to the harpsichord.
	sendingtransmission.tripod.com /harpguitarinfo.html (179 words)

	Stellenbosch University Department of Music - PERCUSSION, RECORDER, HARP, GUITAR STAFF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Dietrich Wagner studied classical guitar under Fritz Buss, obtaining his BMus degree in 1963, having previously taken a BA at the University of the Witwatersrand.
		He is the composer of a number of solo works for the classical guitar, has arranged and composed songs for guitar and voice, provided incidental music for plays and lectured and written articles concerning lute and guitar music.
		He has been an examiner for Unisa guitar examinations, and is invited regularly to adjudicate on the panel of the National Guitar Competition, presented under the auspices of the Classical Guitar Society of South Africa.
	academic.sun.ac.za /music/percussionrecorderharpguitarstaff.htm (335 words)

	Eaton/Reuter Harp Guitar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It is patterned after one of William's previous harp guitars, with the addition of eight strings across the treble side with an octave-dividing bridge, for a total of 28 playable strings.
		In fact, most of the instrument's structure including the neck, top body rim, and harp arch are carved from one solid piece of maple.
		This instrument is fitted with two Fishman saddle transducers for the guitar and bass harp strings, and a Fishman harp soundboard transducer for the octave harp strings on the treble bout.
	www.roberto-venn.com /harpguitar.html (221 words)

	Stacy Hobbs Fingerstyle Harp Guitarist - Harp Gtr Info
		The harp guitars that I play were made in or around 1920 by the Larson Brothers of Chicago.
		The Larsons' built many a variety of stringed instruments and Harp guitars were only a small part of their important work.
		Though, American the design of the Larson Harp guitars may be, we must give credit to a man by the name of Chris Knutsen for the creative thought and craftsman like know-how to bring the idea of a guitar with an extension coming from out of the upper bout, left side, to fruition.
	www.stacyhobbs.com /abouttheharp.html (654 words)

	Harp Guitar Gathering November 2003
		Harp guitar gods Stephen Bennett (Virginia)– our spiritual leader and inarguably one of the best guitar players on the planet (and my favorite tunesmith) - and John Doan (Oregon), of the angelic 20-string (make that 20-course) harp guitar, creating musical stories so convincing it makes you cry.
		The exquisite Muriel Anderson (Nashville), who’s added steel- and nylon-string harp guitar to her already versatile and consummate guitar playing.
		We were also treated to outrageous one-of-a-kind vintage Larson Brothers harp guitars, courtesy of presenter Bob Hartman and friend Carl Holmgren.
	www.harpguitars.net /hgg/hgg1.htm (1124 words)

	John Doan \| Harp Guitar FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		I had given a concert with multi-stringed guitarist William Eaton and was so impressed with his sound on his self-made harp guitars that when I performed in Phoenix, AZ I went to the Roberto Venn School of Guitar Making that William oversees.
		The Sullivan 20 string harp guitar I play has African Blackwood back and sides (the heaviest wood on earth) which makes the instrument pump out good volume acoustically that mixes in the hall with the amplified sound.
		On my twenty-string harp guitar I have found nylon basses to have a great full tone, less tension on an already stressed instrument, and very importantly have a quick decay so as to not muddy up the sound of the instrument requiring a lot of muting while playing.
	www.johndoan.com /instruments/harpguitar/faq.html (2302 words)

	CRANE GUITAR AND HARP ENSEMBLES TO PERFORM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Douglas Rubio is the director of The Crane Guitar Ensemble.
		Amanda Evans, a junior majoring in harp performance with a music business concentration, is the principal harpist of the group.
		The Crane Harp Ensemble is a community-based group directed by Dr. Jessica Suchy-Pilalis, associate professor of harp and music theory.
	www.potsdam.edu /news/2004/guitar_harp.html (296 words)

	Muriel Anderson Guitarist and Composer
		She is host and originator of the renowned "Muriel Anderson's ALL STAR GUITAR NIGHT®" and founder of the Music for Life Alliance, a non-profit organization to put musical instruments in the hands of underprivileged children by providing instruments and funding for music education to schools and grassroots programs nationwide.
		Harp Guitar Gathering III has used Muriel's harp guitar as the background image for their poster.
		Her harp guitar is built by Del Langejans, her nylon string harp guitar is built by Mike Doolin, and her steel string guitar is built by Kevin Ryan.
	www.murielanderson.com (446 words)

	Harp On! Harmonica Creative Writing
		Guitar had drawn first blood and the fight was on.
		Harp could do little but duck and weave as Guitar flailed at him with his six strings.
		Guitar lay strewn on the dirt street, as a lesson to future instruments that the harmonica can't be beat!
	www.angelfire.com /music/HarpOn/creative.html (5557 words)

	Reviews of Stephen Bennett: Harp Guitar Artistry - Mel Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This video, a good introduction to the artist and harp guitar, opens with the traditional "Westphalia Waltz." It is somewhat unfortunate that the studio's lighting created some slightly annoying glare and reflection atop his instrument.
		With various fingerpicking techniques, the guitar master then moves through nine original pieces, demonstrating various moods of the harp guitar from bluesy to bouncy, new age to grooving.
		Bennett plays two 12-string harp guitars, a Dyer (built by the Larson Brothers of Chicago in 1909) and a Merrill (a replica of his great grandfather's instrument and built by the Merrill Guitar Co. of Williamsburg, Va.).
	www.melbay.com /reviews.asp?ProductID=20179VX&Heading=&category=&catID=&head1=&head2=&sub=&sub1=&author=&mode=&q=&r=&s=&next= (688 words)

	Gruhn, 1915 Gibson Harp Guitar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		One of Orville Gibson's early instruments was an ornate harp guitar, and Gibson had high hopes for the instrument, predicting in catalogs that it would do to the six-string guitar what the piano did to the harpsichord.
		It seemed like a great idea -- a rack of extra bass strings tuned chromatically to provide rich, open-string bass notes.
		In excellent condition, with orignal hard case, it is priced at $5500.
	www.gruhn.com /features/harp/AR3594.html (127 words)

	Lemelson Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Unusual as this guitar looks to us today, harp guitars were made by many companies, including Gibson, Martin, and the Larson brothers, in the early 1900s.
		Harp guitars combine a standard six-string guitar with a harp's sub-bass strings to extend the tonal range of the instrument.
		Forerunners of this style of guitar date back to lutes in the 1500s.
	www.si.edu /harcourt/nmah/lemel/guitars/frames/lg03.htm (59 words)

	DU \| Lamont School of Music \| Faculty
		Students in the Guitar and Harp Program at the Lamont School of Music may select the bachelor of music, bachelor of arts, master of music, or master of arts in music degrees.
		Iznaola's works include the guitar concerto Tiempo Muerto, the instrumental suite Musique de Salon, the mini-cantata for narrator and guitar Frank's Berries, and numerous solo guitar works, among which, the set of Ten Concert Etudes, have attracted considerable attention by fellow guitarists.
		Jonathan is one of the few guitarists to play the ten-string guitar alongside the traditional six-string model, and as a ten-string player he is particularly associated with the innovative and striking music of Maurice Ohana.
	www.du.edu /lamont/fac_guitar.html (1265 words)

	Steve Marsh Web Site
		In the late 1970's, he founded the Chesterfield Classical Guitar Society and over the years has organised numerous public concerts with many of the world's top players coming to give recitals, several of which were recorded by the BBC for the Radio Three series 'Music for Guitar'.
		Guitar examinations - from the lower grades up to Diploma standard - can be taken at the student's request using the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, the London College of Music or the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
		The parts are graded with guitars 1 and 2 being the most difficult through to guitars 5 and 6 being the easiest.
	www.theguitarstudio.freeserve.co.uk (4764 words)

	Sandpiper Instruments Home Page
		The ongoing development of our instruments is accomplished by working with professional musicians who help guide the changes of shape and sound, while concentrating on the business of crafting the highest quality instruments possible.
		Sandpiper's harps are known for light string tension, light weight and uniquely rich sound.
		These characteristics are a result of experience with the Paraguayan harp and its unique enduring quality to hold together with the tension of 36 strings, and yet only weigh 11 pounds.
	www.piperharp.com (261 words)

	The Troubadour - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A rare opportunity to see the harp guitar come alive and played properly, not by one but two very great players.
		In 2002, he acquired his harp guitar, a Spillers, from his mentor and American fingerstyle legend Stephen Bennett.
		The trio uses Dan's skills on harp guitar and voice, in combination with percussionist and a violin/mandolin player, to fuse elements of jazz, funk, rock, bluegrass, and traditional music.
	www.troubadour.co.uk /programme_view.php?view%5Btype%5D=event&view%5Burl%5D=andy-mckee-and-dan-lavoie (203 words)

	Gibson Harp Guitar
		The "harp" strings, so called because they're reminiscent of a harp in appearance and tone (the harp's bass strings, that is), can be tuned to the root notes of the most common chords or in a descending scale (either diatonic or chromatic), beginning above or below the low E-string on the guitar neck.
		I always thought it was the largest, heaviest, most unwieldy guitar in existence until I learned that Gibson's original "Orville-label" harp guitar was even larger.
		Thus, these Gibsons stand out as the only archtop harp guitars ever built, renowned not for their sound (which is somewhat weak in a live setting), but for their tremendous craftsmanship and aesthetic beauty.
	home.earthlink.net /~minermusic/charliebrown.htm (487 words)

	Harp Guitar Makers
		Unfortunately, there were only six guitars entered into the competition and so there was not much choice for the nine panelists.
		One circa 1910 Mayflower guitar has been reported with a label marked "Flower and Groeschl." In 1912 Lyon and Heaky announced that they had obtained the sole rights to the name and distribution of Mayflower mandolins and guitars.
		A total of three 11-course harp guitars are known by this famed maker of Spanish guitars.
	www.harpguitars.net /history/makers.htm (1741 words)

	Guitarrabarva Encyclopedia of The Classical Guitar
		the introduction of the guitar to Weimar in 1788 or 1790.
		A guitar or guitars from the Coptic era circa the 5th or 6th centuries.
		Recitatives of Lucia and Helden and Serenade of Beckmesser in Meistersinger are accompanied by guitar.
	www.guitarrabrava.com /eogpage.shtml (2955 words)

	Kane - Daniel Daniel And The Sacred Harp Guitar Tab
		harp D7 G And said take what you may need.
		the harp it seemed to glow C D Em But the price that Daniel had really paid he did not even know G D7 Back to his brother he took his troubled mind C G And he said
		Em A Then Daniel took the harp and went high on the hill D C And he blew across the meadow like a whipperwhill Em A He played out his heart just
	www.tabalorium.com /tabs/2701.html (229 words)

	Stacy Hobbs Fingerstyle Harp Guitarist
		He's writing new music for the old harp guitar that is breathing new life into that long neglected instrument.
		As he stands and lovingly plays on his instrument, one is taken by his passion and commitment to express himself through the extended range of bass strings beyond the usual six of the guitar.
		At a recent concert sweat ran down his face and across the strings glissening in the stage lights as notes shot from his fingers like a firework display.
	www.stacyhobbs.com /index.shtml (136 words)

	SUNY Potsdam: Harp and Guitar Ensembles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Crane Harp Ensemble and the Guitar Ensemble will perform in concert on Tuesday, March 30, at 7:30 p.m.
		The Guitar Ensemble's program features a medley of Irish quartets, "Dancing About Architecture," a quartet by Mark Visconti, a trio by Haydn, a Spanish tango by Isaac Albeniz and a sonata duet by Domenico Scarlatti.
		Suchy-Pilalis is an associate professor of music theory and harp at The Crane School of Music.
	www.potsdam.edu /news/2004/harp_guitar.html (249 words)

	Hoffman Guitars - Custom built handmade guitars
		I also cover a variety of other guitar related subjects of interest to me (and, hopefully, to you too), particularly an extensive section on how I build guitars.
		Many customers who order guitars love to come in and see their guitar in progress and have me explain what I am doing.
		For those interested in exploring guitars on the web I have included links to a variety of pages which I find interesting.
	www.hoffmanguitars.com (519 words)

	MelBay, 20179VX, Stephen Bennett: Harp Guitar Artistry : Videos -> Harp - musicalinstruments.com
		In what is neither an instructional nor a concert-style format, acoustic guitar master and acknowledged harp guitar pioneer Stephen Bennett plays ten captivating harp guitar solos, demonstrating the capabilities of this rarely heard instrument in a relaxed recording studio setting.
		Stephen introduces each tune with insightful remarks about harp guitar history, the tunings he developed for the additional six bass strings, and the events or circumstances that inspired his compositions.
		One of the original advertising claims made for harp guitars was that they would do to the standard guitar what the piano did to the harpsichord; that is, make it obsolete.
	www.musicalinstruments.com /detail.asp?ProductCode=Mel20179VX (240 words)

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