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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Typescript in Appleby Collection, Guildhall School of Music. Transcribed by Robert Coldwell, May 2019.
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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.
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I am selling my 19th century French-made guitar.
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The latest publication from DGA Editions is now available!
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Guitar Music by 19th Century Women Composers
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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…)
