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Doolin Guitars: Harp Guitars are by nature highly custom instruments, and many variations are possible. Doolin offers a 20-string harp guitar which has all the features normally found on their standard 6-string instruments - Pinless Bridges, Adjustable Neck Angle System, Spiral Rosettes and of course the Doolin Double Cutaway. Each of the six sub-bass strings has a Dragon Whisper sharping lever to quickly change keys, while each of the 8 super-treble strings has a fine tuner for accurate tuning. Website: Doolin Guitars

Pearlman Guitars: Perlman harp guitars are handmade works of art. the result of twenty years of dedicated research, work, and uncompromising attention to detail in the pursuit of building guitars of the rarest quality. They use a European Spruce soundboard with a hybrid bracing design, utilizing an X-brace with full fan bracing. This necessitates using a pinless bridge design. The guitar and harp are equipped with Highlander pickups.The new steel string arch harp guitar was a wonderfully successful instrument. Perlman is currently building a guitar that has the 8 high harp strings and the 11 string configuration on a classical guitar body for a client that wants a more classical guitar tone. Website: Pearlman Guitars

Hofffman Guitars: Hoffman Guitars is, more than anything, the sum of its parts. They currently have many harp guitar projects under way. They have studied vintage harp guitars to gain important insight which will improve the quality of their custom harp guitars. Some vintage harp guitars had an elaborately curved block to accommodate the side of the harp extension. This method is based on the method common in classic guitars where the sides are glued into slots cut into the neck/neck block ,which is one piece in most classic guitars.
Website: Hofffman Guitars

Worland Guitars: Worland Guitars manufactures the Lyra harp guitar . For a guitarist in an increasingly competitive world of amazing players, the harp guitar is a way of expanding the boundries of guitar music as well as setting oneself apart as playing a unique instrument. While many people look at the harp guitar and wonder how anybody could ever play one, they are actually very similar to a guitar but with some extra strings to expand the range.Website: Worland Guitars

Duane Noble Guitars: Duane Noble creates fine custom handbuilt harp guitars. Please click on the link to view guitars in stock available for purchase now.Website: Duane Noble Guitars

Kathy Wingert Guitars: Kathy Wingert harp guitars have qualities that are consistent from the lowest sub-bass (tuned as low as an E one octave below the standard 6th string) all the way to the highest frets of the first string.Website: Kathy Wingert Guitars

Merrill & Company: Merrill and Company Harp guitar has all the beauty and sound quality you'd expect from a Merrill guitar and adds the resonance and depth of 6 bass strings. Some of it's features include Honduran mahogany back and sides, Adirondack spruce top and braces , Spanish cedar neck , Brazilian rosewood fingerboard & bridge ,Waverly tuners (6 string) and 5 Star bass tuners .Website: Merrill & Company

William Eaton: Eaton is a luthier who makes harp guitars. They have been featured in books, magazines, video, luthier conventions and at international exhibits. Along with Roberts and Bob Venn, he co-founded the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery in Phoenix in 1975, where he continues as director of the school and creator of new instruments. Website: William Eaton

Stephen Sedgwick Luthier: Stephen Sedgwick is an English maker of fine equipoised steel string and classical guitars who specializes in harp guitars. He enjoys rising to the challenge of making instruments that are unusual and different. Combining modern and traditional techniques in both construction and designWebsite: Stephen Sedgwick Luthier

McCollum Guitars: McCollum Guitars builds quality harp guitars with unique aesthetic appeal. A die-hard fan of the traditional dovetail neck joint, McCollums building style produces a guitar that has the tonal complexities of a grand piano with all the notes speaking independently, while blending evenly with great sustain all the way up the fingerboard. They step outside of the traditional building mode with the use of some of the world's most strikingly beautiful woods and unique soundhole rosettes. Website: McCollum Guitars

Mermer Guitars: Mermer Guitars creates an alternative style of harp guitar which is comfortable for the player to actually hold and play. An additional bonus is that it is easy to travel with, as the neck and sub bass extension can easily be removed when traveling. Loosen the sub bass and main strings, coil the strings from the ball end, and remove the eight allen screws. Now you can remove the neck and sub bass extension, fold them along side the instrument's body, and travel with it packed in a case the size of a small suite case.Website: Mermer Guitars

Whaley Musical Instruments: Whaley Musical Instruments are handmade unique steel string guitars and harp guitars of historic influence. They offer their 11 string Dyer harp guitar. Whaley Guitars is located in Saint Louis, Missouri. Website: Whaley Musical Instruments

Beyond The Trees: Fred Carlson, co-founder of Beyond the Trees has been evolving an acoustic guitar with sympathetic resonating strings called the Sympitar. The "standard" set-up includes 6 main strings and 12 sympathetic strings. Through working with added strings like this, he began to get orders for custom instruments with extra strings, including strings that were to be plucked but not fretted, so-called "harp" strings like the sub-bass or super-treble strings on harp guitars. A client asked him to design and build an instrument that combined his Sympitar with the basic configuration of an old Dyer harp guitar, and the first "Harp-Sympitar" was born ( named The Oracle by it's owner, it was a tribute to the great harp guitarist Michael Hedges).Website: Beyond The Trees

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