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Historical harp guitar players include Polish guitarist-virtuoso Marek Konrad Sokołowski (1818-1884), the German composers and guitarists Adam Darr (1811–1866) and Eduard Bayer (1822–1908) and the Italian virtuosi Pasquale Taraffo (1887–1937), [2] [7] Mario Maccaferri, Italo Meschi (1887-1957) and Luigi Mozzani.
William Eaton is a New Age guitarist and luthier, known for building unique instruments, particularly harp guitars. [1] Eaton is currently the director of the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery . [ 2 ] In 2015, Eaton was conferred the Governor of Arizona Arts Award. [ 1 ]
Doan's latest video project is a 90-minute documentary that he wrote and starred in titled In Search of the Harp Guitar. John hosted an International Harp Guitar Festival at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. [9] Doan was recently awarded "World's Leading Harp Guitarist" by the Brand Laureate Awards.
Muriel Anderson (born June 17, 1960) is an American fingerstyle guitarist and harp guitarist who plays in many genres. She is the first woman to win the National Fingerpicking Guitar Championship. She is the first woman to win the National Fingerpicking Guitar Championship.
Slim Harpo (born Isiah Moore or James Isaac Moore; February 11, 1924 [a] – January 31, 1970) [1] [2] was an American blues musician, a leading exponent of the swamp blues style, and "one of the most commercially successful blues artists of his day". [3] He played guitar and was a master of the blues harmonica, known in
Michael Alden Hedges (December 31, 1953 – December 2, 1997) was an American acoustic guitarist and songwriter. He was known as a virtuoso who used unorthodox playing techniques, and much of his output was classified as new age music.
Italo Meschi (Italian: [ˈiːtalo ˈmɛski]; 9 December 1887 – 15 October 1957) was a harp guitarist from Lucca, Italy. Italo Meschi with his ala d'aquila ("eagle wing") harp guitar. Forty years after his death his long-forgotten trove of writings, compositions, and mementos began to resurface thanks to his closest relatives.
"Crystal Harp" solid-body (Goas-Stivell, 1987) Alan Stivell was born in the Auvergnat town of Riom.His father, Georges (Jord in Breton) Cochevelou, was a civil servant in the French Ministry of Finance who achieved his dream of recreating a Celtic or Breton harp in the small town of Gourin, Brittany [2] and his mother Fanny-Julienne Dobroushkess was of Lithuanian-Jewish descent.