Since I originally posted in 2012 about the Nakano Collection (original post below) I have been working to add it to my Archive Search feature. It is finally available! Follow this link to show all items from the collection.
The Scheit Archive as cataloged by Stefan Hackl is now available in the Archive Search. Details about the rare items in the archive are available on his site Gitarre-Archiv Österreich and some good background on Scheit and the archive is available in this Classical Guitar article. The Scheit Archive is currently housed at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst (MdW).
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The large encyclopedia of Russian guitar has been made publicly available in PDF format at vk.com by Sergey Bizin.
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After recently acquiring a Russian guitar I’ve gone through a number of pedagogic resources to find those that might help others interested in learning this instrument. (Updated 3/18/2019)
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Morishige Takei was a lover of film in addition to the guitar and mandolin. He entered several film competitions, although I don’t currently have much details about his film work other than the films I was allowed to copy from his daughter in 1997. I have uploaded all of them Read more…
Here is a short history of Morishige Takei that was included in the introduction to a book on Takei’s music published in 1965 by Zen’on Music Publishing Company (with some clarifying edits). (more…)
I originally wrote in 1997 about the guitars purchased in 1926 by Japanese collectors from Philip Bone, but never shared a copy of the original letter received from Bone listed details on the guitars. I stumbled across my correspondence with Nakano recently and realized he had sent me a copy of the letter. Here it is! (more…)
