Memoirs of Madame Giulia Pelzer
Typescript in Appleby Collection, Guildhall School of Music. Transcribed by Robert Coldwell, May 2019.
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Yablokov M.S. – “Classic guitar in Russia and the USSR” (1992)
The large encyclopedia of Russian guitar has been made publicly available in PDF format at vk.com by Sergey Bizin.
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Russian Guitar
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.
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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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Le Donne e La Chitarra
Guitar Music by 19th Century Women Composers
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Morishige Takei films
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…
The Takei Collection and a Brief History of Morishige Takei
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…)
Regondi guitar in Japan, 1926
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…)
Mertz manuscripts and instruments for sale (1856-57)
On November 6th, 1856, less than a month after the death of J. K. Mertz on October 14th, his manuscripts and instruments were put up for sale. (more…)
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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