historical instruments

The Sound of the American Mandolin

The following video has recently been uploaded to youtube. 2018 North Carolina Heritage Award recipient Tony Williamson is a visionary musician, composer, musical instrument expert, teacher and mentor. He has played stringed instruments, most famously mandolin, for six decades and has been receiving awards and honors for his music for nearly 50 of those years. …

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Mandolins, Pandurinas, Mandolones and Colachons – Catalog of the Music Instruments Museum in Cöln 1910/1912

On the archive.org website I have found two books showing the musical instruments collection of a museum in Cöln (Cologne). The second volume of the catalog describes the plucked instruments. For this article I have selected the mandolin family and extracted the pictures. The quality of those pictures  is not the best, but they are …

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Eduard Bayer – A Guitar Method of the 19th Century – Brian Torosian plays Bayer’s Souvenir d’Amour on a 10-string Harp-Guitar

Recently I have made a scan of a guitar method by Eduard Bayer and added it to my score catalogue at musicaneo.com. Eduard Bayer was a guitar virtuoso and composer of the 19th century. He played a special guitar with 10 strings, an early version of the harp-guitar. I have found the following video of …

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