The Periodicals of Ferdinand Pelzer (1833-1857), edited by Dr. Sarah Clarke The German musician, Ferdinand Pelzer (1801-1864), arrived in London with his family in or around 1829. Ferdinand became one of the most important guitarists in the capital in the 1830s at a time when the instrument was enjoying great popularity. His daughters Catharina and […]
Jeff presented at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix earlier this month where 12 guitars from the Austin-Marie Collection will be on display through September 2025 as part of the exhibit, Stradivarius and the Golden Age of Violins and Guitars: https://mim.org/ He was joined by his wife Monique and friends George, Vivian, Reinhard, and Kay. […]
Three Centuries of Guitar II event October 17th
Guitar Making in Nineteenth-Century London by Dr. James Westbrook is now available! https://www.classicalguitar.co.uk/shop/guitar-making-in-nineteenth-century-london/ Guitar Making In Nineteenth-Century London
The guitar craze that began with the Folk Revival Movement in the late 1940s and transitioned into the rock and roll bands of the 1950s-’70s is familiar to most everyone old enough to remember. But there was another craze for the guitar born in Western Europe over two centuries ago at the dawn of the […]
