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Richard Walz – Beethoven, Hummel and Neuling – Works for Mandolin and Piano

CD Works for Mandolin and Piano with Richard Walz, Mandolin, and Viviana Sofronitzki, Piano I have just discovered the following videos with recordings by Richard Walz. These are recordings from a CD Works for Mandolin and Piano with Richard Walz, Mandolin, and Viviana Sofronitzki, Piano, recorded in 1998. This CD is probably no more available, …

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The Early Electric Guitar / Hawaiian Lap Steel Guitar + Rare Video Clips (1936 – 1939)

The history of the electric guitar began in the early 1930s. Especially the Hawaiian lap steel guitar was electrified and used by several Hawaiian bands of the time. British Pathé has documented such performances, those are certainly very interesting documents for the history of the elctric guitar. Rudy Starita 22/06/1936 Now Pathetone has pleasure in …

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British Pathé – Historic videos with mandolin, banjo, ukulele and guitar

The French ukulele site ukulele.fr pointed me today to British Pathé. British Pathé is one of the oldest media companies, the founder of the company – Charles Pathé – began already in the 1890s to work with moving images. They produced weekly movies with the events and news of the week for the cinamas and …

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