Otto Feder – Articles on the Guitar, 1856
Otto Feder (1820-??), a native of Germany, was a guitarist active in the United States from the mid-1850s to 1869.
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The Works of Justin Holland and Justin Minor Holland
The complete known published and unpublished compositions of Justin Holland (1819-1887) and his son Justin Minor Holland (1848-1917) are listed here.
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Justin Minor Holland “The Guitar” in Brainard’s Musical World 1887-1888
A few years ago I found 14 pages of lined paper with articles pasted on them in a folder titled “Clippings Justin Holland 1887” in the Bickford Collection at California State University Northridge. The articles were titled “The Guitar” and included interesting topics on Sor, Carulli, Carcassi, Molino and answers to reader letters. A typescript also in this folder contains transcriptions of some of these articles and articles from other guitar journals. Based on these two items I was able to track down these articles to Brainard’s Musical World January – December 1888.
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Paris, Lacote School, imported by Metzler & Marcus Moses
I am selling my 19th century French-made guitar.
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S. S. Stewart’s Banjo, Guitar and Mandolin Journal
I’ve been gathering locations for all issues of S.S. Stewart’s Journal for many years and am now at a point where I’ve exhausted all major sources. I am still looking for missing issues and any suggestions would be most welcome.
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