The Japanese journal “The Study of Mandolin and Guitar” 「マンドリンとギター研究」was published by Morishige Takei from March 1924 until October 1941. This journal started after a pause caused by the Great Kanto Earthquake in September 1923. In January 1941 Takei paused publication then started again in January 1942 with “Material for the Study of Mandolin and Guitar” 「マンドリンギター研究資料」.
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The Japanese journal “Mandolin and Guitar” 「マンドリンとギター」was published by Morishige Takei from April 1916 until August 1923. The series was interrupted by the Great Kanto Earthquake in September 1923. Takei restarted the journal under a new title in 1924, “The Study of Mandolin and Guitar” 「マンドリンギター研究」.
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Below are translations from the Japan Mandolin Union bulletins in 1990 and 1991 detailing the depositing of the Takei Music Library in the Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo, Japan. Please see my earlier articles on Morishige Takei, an incomplete listing of the contents while it was held by others, and some additional details I learned from Kunitachi librarians.
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I’m pleased to announce that I have published in a digital edition the monograph “Alphonse Meurger: Musician, Composer, Publisher” by Jan W.J. Burgers. It is a fascinating history of a musician’s life in the very early 19th century along with a detailed list of 173 prints of his songs. The Read more…
A rich Russian, Nikolas Makaroff, has offered significant prizes of 800 and 500 Frcs. for the two best guitar compositions, and the same amount for the two best made guitars of large dimensions and 10 strings. Compositions and instruments must be sent to the Russian Legation in Brussels by Read more…
*** A Mr. Nicolaus Makarov in St. Petersburg has announced as “lover of music and especially of the guitar,” in order to lift this latter instrument and “snatch the musical Baria from the humiliation in which she languished during the last fifteen years,” 4 prizes, namely one of 200 and Read more…
L’arte Chitarristica was published by Bèrben in Modena, Italy from 1947 through 1961.
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Der Gitarrefreund was originally published 1900 to 1931 by the Gitarristischen Vereinigung in Munich, Germany. It was restarted in 1950 and ended in 1965.
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Guitarra magazine was published in Chicago by Antigua Casa Sherry-Brener Inc. from 1963 through 1987. It appears not to have been published from 1969 to 1978.
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