John Doan is a music historian, and Emmy-nominated composer/performer known for his pioneering efforts to revive the harp guitar. His latest CD The Lost Music Of Fernando Sor is the first recording of Sor’s music for the three-necked harpolyre. He is professor of music at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon.
▪ bio current as of 2009
2016
AL#128 p.65 read this article
James Westbrook John Doan
▪ Guild members knew Jim Forderer as the guy who brought an RV full of important antique guitars to the GAL Conventions and let us play them. Disabilities advocates and Neil Young fans knew him as the co-founder of The Bridge School. Sometimes the angels don’t look like angels. Maybe all the time.
2009
AL#99 p.67 read this article
John Doan
▪ The reviewer admires this book that takes a serious look at the lyre-guitar, an instrument that most of us—even those with a bent for history—give short shrift.
1996
AL#45 p.43 BRB4 p.123
John Doan
▪ The history of the banjo-lin, 100 years old, manufactured by F.C. Heiser Company, Fort Smith, Arkansas.
1993
AL#36 p.63
John Doan
▪ Obtaining the extended bass strings for a Dyer harp guitar