The Bundesmitteilungen des Bundes Deutscher Gitarren- und Lautenspieler in der Tschecho-Slowakei was published by Prof. Franz Klinger (Reichenberg) and Prof. Max Klinger (Rumsberg) [source: Zuth Handbuch].
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I recently acquired a few recordings by Morishige Takei, Shun Ogura and Yoshie Okawara I would like to share.
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After the publication of the book “A. T. Huerta Life and Works” in 2006 by Javier Suárez-Pajares and myself, we continued researching Huerta references and music. Recently I discovered an edition in Harvard Library with an unusual twist.
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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 publishing pause from his first journal “Mandolin and Guitar” 「マンドリンとギター」caused by the Great Kanto Earthquake in September 1923. In October 1941 Takei paused publication again, then restarted 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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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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