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…
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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Il Chitarrista was published in Italy from 1950.
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La Chitarra was published in Bologna, Italy from 1934 to 1942.
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Revista de la Guitarra was published in Buenos Aires from probably 1939 through at least 1945.
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The Crescendo was published from 1908 through 1934 in Boston.
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