Read Hart Huttig II’s memoriam
H.E. Huttig was a faithful Guild member from the very start, a frequent author in our early days, one of our first advertisers, and a good friend to many in the craft. He passed away a few months after the interview in this issue was recorded. he is survived by his wife Rose. Hart passed away in 1992. Read his memoriam.
▪ bio current as of 1992
1993
AL#34 p.42 ALA5 p.8
H.E. Huttig Todd Taggart Tim Olsen
▪ A well-loved man is remembered in his own words. Also see AL#32.
1992
AL#32 p.16 BRB3 p.250 ALA5 p.10
R.E. Brune H.E. Huttig
▪ Huttig began importing guitar parts and European tonewood in the 1950s, and was a hard-core enthusiast of the classical guitar even before that. As a businessman and a friend to musicians and luthiers his life had far-reaching fallout. Mentions Barbero, Bobri, Hauser II, Hernandez, Romanillos, Ramirez, Esteso, and so on.
This article has been nominated as one of the Guild’s best articles published before 2010.
1989
AL#19 p.23 read this article
H.E. Huttig
▪ Farewell to a jazz guitarist/repairman.
1988
AL#13 p.7 BRB2 p.4
H.E. Huttig
▪ Huttig relates a story about the instrument that was the center of the classical guitar universe for decades, the Hauser played by Segovia.
This article has been nominated as one of the Guild’s best articles published before 2010.
1987
AL#10 p.6 BRB1 p.358
H.E. Huttig
▪ Bobri was an artist and a patron of the arts, a composer and transcriber of guitar music, president of the New York Guitar Society, and editor of Guitar Review. Huttig’s admiration for the man is obvious in this salute following Bobri’s death by fire.
1987
AL#9 p.36 BRB1 p.334 read this article
H.E. Huttig
▪ Have you ever wondered how cat gut strings were named? This article suggests an answer as it delves into some string facts and fictions.
1985
AL#2 p.25
H.E. Huttig
▪ Humorous fiction. A guitar of continental proportions is constructed with disastrous results.
1983
GALQ Vol.11#3 p.10 BRB2 p.154
H.E. Huttig
▪ The author visited Hauser in Germany in 1966. This short biography and remembrance adds a bit of humanity to a man who is usually only thought of in terms of the guitars he left behind when he died. With 2 photos.
This article has been nominated as one of the Guild’s best articles published before 2010.
1983
GALQ Vol.11#1 p.12 BRB2 p.109
David Fisher H.E. Huttig
▪ H.E. Huttig, wood merchant, writer, world traveler, experimenter, practical musicologist, lover of life, guitar maker.
1982
GALQ Vol.10#3 p.35 read this article
H.E. Huttig
▪ Huttig visits 3 fine craftsmen: Allen Chester, Robert S. Cooper, and George Wilson.
1982
GALQ Vol.10#4 p.17 read this article
H.E. Huttig
▪ It wasn’t easy being a lutherie wood dealer back when there were hardly any luthiers and they were mostly broke hippies.
1982
GALQ Vol.10#1 p.26 read this article
H.E. Huttig
▪ Huttig’s introduction to the mystery of beauty of musical instruments.
1981
GALQ Vol.9#4 p.26
H.E. Huttig
▪ Guitarist William Foden could compare in technique with any artist of any era.
1978
GALQ Vol.6#2 p.30 BRB2 p.61
H.E. Huttig
▪ Hutting happens across Manuel Davila in Guatemala City, who builds guitars that are completely original and do not follow tradition in construction and decoration.
1978
GALQ Vol.6#3 p.8 LT p.104
H.E. Huttig
▪ A tribute to the late George Vogl of Bubenreuth, Germany, maker of special luthier’s tools.
1976
DS#32 LT p.14
H.E. Huttig
▪ Short history of steel and its principal alloys, plus a description of sharpening stones, and how to use and maintain them.
This article has been nominated as one of the Guild’s best articles published before 2010.
1976
DS#35 read this article
H.E. Huttig
▪ PEG is a chemical that resembles Paraffin, is non-toxic, non-corrosive, colorless and odorless, and when applied to wood, greatly improves the dimensional stability and eliminates splitting and warp problems.
1975
DS#19 LW p.5 read this article
H.E. Huttig
▪ Terminology of lumber biz.
This article has been nominated as one of the Guild’s best articles published before 2010.
1975
GALNL Vol.3#2 p.1 BRB2 p.61
H.E. Huttig
▪ Hutting happens across Manuel Davila in Guatemala City, who builds guitars that are completely original and do not follow tradition in construction and decoration.
1975
GALNL Vol.3#2 p.10
H.E. Huttig
▪ A visit to the Applebys in Cheltenham on the occasion of their publication, Guitar News, coming to an end. You can find Guitar News at www.digitalguitararchive.com/2019/11/guitar-news.
1975
GALNL Vol.3#5,6 p.25 BRB2 p.23
H.E. Huttig
▪ A number of builders impacted the lutherie scene simply by keeping the craft alive during the dark days of the ’50s and early ’60s, even though they are all but forgotten today. Company fled Castro’s Cuba to Florida, where he made all manner of guitars and Latin instruments.
1973
GALNL Vol.1#2 p.3
H.E. Huttig
▪ Eight step process for the Spanish luthier bridge gluing method.
1974
DS#1 BRB2 p.104
H.E. Huttig
▪ Traditional Spanish style rosette making for soundholes, starting with veneer preparation.