Armonia 「アルモニア」
The Japanese guitar journal Armonia “アルモニア” was published from January 1927 to October 1941 by Chuzaemon Sawaguchi 澤口 忠左衛門 in Sendai, Japan.
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Japan Guitar 「ギター日本」
The Japanese guitar journal “Japan Guitar” or “ギター日本” was published from April 1966 to March 1970.
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Revista de la Guitarra 「ギター専門誌 ギタルラ」
The Japanese guitar journal “Revista de la Guitarra” or “ギター専門誌 ギタルラ” was published from perhaps 1947 to at least 1959.
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Der Guitarrefreund
The Internationalen Guitarristen Verbands in Munich published a journal from 1900 to 1931. It was known for the first few issues just as “Mitteilungen des Internationalen Guitarristen–Verbands (e.V.)” then as “Der Guitarrefreund” and later as “Der Gitarrefreund.”
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Mitteilungen der Freien Vereinigung zur Förderung guter Guitaremusik (e. V.)
The journal “Mitteilungen der Freien Vereinigung zur Förderung guter Guitaremusik (e. V.)” (known in English as the “Free Society for the promotion of good guitar-music”) was one of the early, informative journals on the guitar published in Augsburg, Germany from 1904 to 1909. In January 1909 the Augsburg society joined with the Munich Gitarristischen Vereinigung and stopped publication of their own journal.
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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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Nakano guitar journal contents
As detailed in one of my earlier blog entries, Jiro Nakano was not only a long time collector, but was a tremendous cataloger of all information related to the guitar and mandolin. He wrote many articles over a very long period of time and contributed many long lists of composers and compositions to various guitar journals in Japan.
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Giulianiad
The Giulianiad was published in London from January 1833 through possibly July 1835. Its editor was not listed in any of the journals but it is fairly well accepted that Ferdinand Pelzer was very involved in the work. There are only two known locations of complete issues of the journal: The Read more…
Material for the Study of Mandolin and Guitar「マンドリンとギター研究資料」
Takei Morishige’s journal “Material for the Study of Mandolin and Guitar”「マンドリンとギター研究資料」was published from January 1942 to November 1943.
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