Harp guitars are very beautiful instruments, and they’re also quite rare – as far as I know, those who play them have to custom-order the instruments. As a result, there is actually fairly wide variation with the instruments. In the picture above, Muriel Anderson has a 13-string harp guitar with half-step tuners on the bass strings, but there’s an interesting YouTube video of her talking about her 20-string instrument where her top priority in design was being able to fit it in an airplane overhead bin!
I hope the year has been peaceful so far!
In addition to the “Carol of the Bells” playlist, I’ve started a general playlist of Christmas songs that will include pieces mentioned here, for anyone interested.