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• Hanno Kiehl, guitar maker, Bergen Norway and Hamburg.
  
  
  
  

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• Marcus Dominelli, guitar maker, Victoria BC.
  

• Eythor Thorlakkson is an Icelandic/Finnish composer who does a great deal of arranging for solo guitar and ensemble guitars. Free sheet music!

• Guitar Forum, a new scholarly journal for the classical guitar, edited by Jonathan Leathwood whom you will remember from the 2004-5 Frye Concert series. Guitar Forum is a printed journal dedicated to in-depth scholarly work on the classical guitar, its technique and its repertoire. Two issues have now been printed, both running to over a hundred large-format pages. Guitar Forum 1 comprises articles by Ricardo Iznaola, Dusan Bogdanovic, Stephen Goss, Richard Wright, and Ted McNamara; Guitar Forum 2 has contributions from Julian Bream, Sarn Dyer, Lorenzo Micheli, Fabio Zanon and Luis Zea. The articles are extensively illustrated with musical examples, several of which constitute complete, newly composed pieces. The journal subscribes to high standards of presentation and production.
  
  Guitar Forum is published by the European Guitar Teachers Association UK (EGTA UK), edited by Jonathan Leathwood and refereed by a board comprising Stephen Dodgson, Angelo Gilardino, Stephen Goss, Ricardo Iznaola, Stanley Yates, and Fabio Zanon.

• Tillman Hopstock's great opus of arrangements for solo guitar and 2-5 guitar ensembles. Hopstock specializes in Bach, I would say; his CD with the great Keyboard Partita No.1 , one of the most exciting of Bach's works, is memorable.

• The International Ten-String Guitar Society.

• Gallery Concerts of Seattle, specializing in the 'intimate art of chamber music'. This is one of several impressive music organizations in Seattle, not unlike the SCGS: in this case presenting concerts for the past 15 years, principally from the baroque literature.
• World Guitarist, daily news of the guitar world: a large collection of events and resources for the classical guitar, by Gunnar Eisel.
• Otis Tomas, Nova Scotia luthier. An interesting site describing some of the process of building and finishing stringed instruments.
• GuitArt International, associated with the quarterly magazine/CD of the same name, with some very nice audio tracks.
• Guittara Magazine: with much interesting to read about history and technique, interviews and reviews.
• Guitar Review, with some excerpts from the printed quarterly magazine.

• The Connecticut Classical Guitar Society.

• Our 'namesake' SCGS east, the Southampton England Classic Guitar Society.
• Boston Classical Guitar Society.
• Richard's List of Notable American Luthiers.
• Barber and Harris, London makers of lutes, vihuelas, baroque guitars, archlutes, chitarroni, theorbos, orpharions, bandoras and citterns.

• Seattle Luthiers Group. Below is a Haxton guitar.
  

• Flute and guitar...sound nice? There are some lovely folk songs used for inspiration by Robert Beaser ('Mountain Songs', heard on Eliot Fisk's recent CDs). I managed to find both the sheet music and Fisk CD at Rosewood Guitar. Another site describing sheet music for this combination, here .
  
  If you find a willing flautist (visit the Seattle Flute Society perhaps) you will certainly want to explore older works; amid the sea of mediocre baroque flute and guitar literature (when the guitar was so quiet that little was asked of it), look for Christian Gottlieb Scheidler's (1752-1815) Sonata in D major. Laurindo Almeida and Bud Shank (more recently of Port Townsend Jazz Festival fame) actually recorded this in 1982.
  
  For sheer romance, it's hard to beat Bachianas Brasilieras #5 of Villa-Lobos, often heard with a haunting soprano like Victoria de los Angeles, but excellent with flute and guitar. For sheer stupified amusement on the other hand, listen to it in MIDI (rather like artificial bacon bits instead of bacon).
  
  
• Other ensemble chamber music for classical guitar, of course opens a huge set of search possibilities; an eclectic list is here.
  
  
• Spanish Guitar Centre, London, a venerable English shop with interesting browsing of their sheet music. The English have a special fondness for spanish guitars and music.
  
  
• Festival season is coming: have a look at some of the many guitar-centered festivals/workshops of summer: for example Dundee, Scotland, involving both jazz and classical.
  
  
• The grand-daddy of music festivals: The Edinburgh Festival. You'll have to look hard for classical guitar, but it is often there,(last year including a many-faceted concert celebrating the music of Astor Piazzolla).
  
  
• A history of the classical guitar
  
  
• Joaquin Rodrigo, a biographical website.
  
  
• Edmonton Classical Guitar Society, somewhat like us, with interesting articles.
  
  
• The Villa-Lobos Museum in Brazil, where you can hear short segments played by the maestro himself.
  
  
• Jose Ramirez guitars of Madrid. The history of the Ramirez family is brought to date. With the passing of Jose Ramirez IV in June 2000, his sister Amalia has taken charge of the shop, which has been in the family since its founding in 1882. Recent changes to the design of the famed '1a' model are outlined.
  
  
• Bryan Johanson's works featured on the website of Gagliano Recordings. Brian was an organizer of the Portland Guitar Festival which took place early in March. His music has been featured in the recent LA Guitar Quartet concert in Seattle, as well as in Michael Partington's Benaroya Hall concert in 2001. There are numerous sound-bites to tantalize you.

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