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The Curious Career of Vardon, Perry and Wilber(s)?
A Vaudevillian Mystery

Softcover, 120 fully-illustrated pages

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This book tells the story of the Vaudeville team of Vardon and Perry and their revolving third team member who always went by the name of "Wilber." Fully illustrated with hundreds of rare images, it describes their career, the act, and the unusual harp guitars they played. Fully footnoted, nine additional appendices provide a scholarly study of every aspect of their career and musical instruments.

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$24.95

Gregg Miner:
The Harp Guitars of Mario Maccaferri

100 pages, full color PDF

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I have left no stone unturned in telling the remarkable story of Maccaferri's life in harp guitars! 

Free to Harpguitars.net members.

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$29.95
Gregg Miner: W. J. Dyer & Bro. Symphony Harp Mandolins and the Symphony Harp Plectral Ensemble
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SOLD OUT, but free PDF article is online here!

The title says it all. After decades of research which began with Robert Carl Hartman, and updated multiple times by Gregg Miner, this is the definitive monograph on the entire Dyer harp mandolin family's history, models, styles and more!

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Gregg Miner: Norwegian Wood companion book

90 pages, softcover or PDF

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The ultimate in liner notes!  This beautiful full-color, fully-illustrated, 90-page perfect bound book was created to share not only the stories behind the music of Norwegian Wood, but the instruments that it made it – along with the fascinating builder (Knutsen) who built them. An additional bonus are the dozens of rare historical photos and advertisements depicting similar instruments in their 1895-1930 heyday. Main shots (first and last) of instruments are all in scale to keep everything in perspective. As an accompaniment to the CD or a stand-alone book, it’s another over-the-top Gregg Miner production!  More >>> See all format options
Floating Strings: The Remarkable Story of the Harp Guitar in America
by Gregg Miner, edited by Carolyn Grant
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SOLD OUT - but went online free in June, 2020!

Beautiful full-color 60-page exhibit catalog tells the story of America's harp guitar, beginning with a brief introduction of European instruments, and ending with the explosion of modern instruments.  A stand-alone publication to accompany the 2017-2018 public exhibit at NAMM's Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, California.

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The Lute in Europe 2: Lutes, Guitars, Mandolins, and Citterns
by Andreas Schlegel & Joachim Lüdtke

Hardback, w/o DJ

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The long-awaited new edition of The Lute in Europe is here! Greatly expanded, the new hardcover features 447 pages and 150 full color photos - an inch and a half thick!  Along with historical lutes, there is coverage on early medieval instruments, guitars, mandolins and citterns (and even a harp guitar or two...).

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$54.95
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In a Parallel Reality
(En Una Realidad Paralela)
by James Kline

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A lovely small hardback book showcasing arch-guitarist Jim Kline's magical forest wood carvings.

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$24.95
A Luthier's Alphabet of Imaginary Instruments
Woodcuts and Poems by Fred Carlson

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It's "Inventive Harp Guitar Builder meets Dr. Seuss"!
Published by the Guild of American Luthiers, this delightful book features all the "imaginary alphabet" woodcuts that revered harp guitar builder has been decorating the Guild's semi-annual Conventions for the last several years.  For musical children of all ages!

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To learn more about harp guitars, please visit Harpguitars.net
Harp-guitars, harpguitars, guitar-harps, bass guitars, contra guitars, kontraguitars, arch-guitars, theorbo-guitars, one-arm guitars, chitarra-lyras, doubleneck guitars, double neck guitars, one-armed guitars, hollow arm guitars, hollow-armed guitars

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(860) 894-7504