As my musical life and web site expand, it becomes time to help Internet surfers with a site map to more quickly see what I have to offer (or not).
To save us both time - very quickly:
I am NOT a music store.
I am NOT a record company.
I am NOT an instrument appraiser.
I make NO money from the many hundreds of web pages I present, only a small amount from sales of my CDs (thank you to my patrons!).

I AM a part-time professional musician, plucked string instrument collector and historian. I’m happy to share my research and experience with fellow instrument fans, and to answer questions when I can. In return, I encourage you to support my work with a CD purchase (if not now, then remember me at Christmas time!) – heck, for five bucks, you can get 2 tapes and 2 glossy color booklets that cost me more than that to produce.

Thanks!
Gregg Miner

Basically, this site can be boiled down to these two parts (click on one to begin):
My recordings and musical career
My instrument collection and study of rare, neglected, or esoteric stringed instruments

My recordings and musical career

Home

• What’s New – more often contains new research pages, occasionally something new about me.
• Discography
• Beyond Six Strings (The world's first harp guitar compilation I co-produced, and contributed 1 track)
• Original Music Sampler (3 of my "orchestrated" tunes. Link to Sphinx Rag clip.)
• A Christmas Collection (the 4-5 year project utilizing 100 instruments)
  • Synopsis
  • Song/Instrument List: Volume 1 (links to individual Song/Instrument pages, and Song Samples)
  • Song/Instrument List: Volume 2 (links to individual Song/Instrument pages, and Song Samples)
  • CD Offers > CD Orders
  • Song Samples (30 second snippets of most tunes)
  • Interviews on "the making of"
• Guest Appearances (on other CDs, some occasionally available through me)
• CD Offers > CD Orders
• The Artist – brief bio on yours truly
• Appearances – past, present and upcoming appearances – on stage, print, TV & Radio (I rarely find opportunities to book my cost-prohibitive live Holiday show, unfortunately)
• Interviews & Reviews – on A Christmas Collection
• Links
• Order CDs (have I stressed it enough?!)

My instrument collection and study of rare, neglected, or esoteric stringed instruments

Home

• What’s New – updates on newly added instrument research pages, or perhaps a new instrument I’ve added to the Museum.
• The Miner Museum (of Vintage, Exotic & Just Plain Unusual Musical Instruments) – two choices:
• The 100 Instruments of "A Christmas Collection" – this page duplicates (and occasionally updates) the images and essays from my Christmas Collection booklets. 27 groups of instruments (coinciding with CD tracks). Also links to:
  • A Christmas Collection (the 4-5 year project utilizing the instruments)
  • Song Samples (30 second snippets of most of the tunes)
• Recent Acquisitions – images and short write-ups on some (but by no means all) of the interesting new instruments I’ve managed to obtain since the above project was completed in 1995. Links to larger, special sections include:
• The Dolceola Pages, featuring:
  • Fretless Zithers - the first proposed organology of these instruments anywhere
  • Washington Phillips CD study - gospel singer initially believed to have played a Dolceola
  • The Instruments of Washington Phillips - examines the fretless zithers we now believe he played
  • The Leadbelly 1944 Hollywood Sessions - feature an authentic Dolceola
• Mandolinettos - guitar-shaped mandolins
• Howe-Orme mandolins - also guitar-shaped, an ongoing study
• Piccolo Mandolin - a true, short-scale mandolin
• The Stoessel Laute - once a popular German instrument, virtually unknown in the States
• My custom Kerry Char resophonic guitar - just showing off
• The Knutsen Archives (see next)
• The Knutsen Archives – links to my huge, separate site (now a part of HG.net) documenting the previously little-understood harp guitars, Hawaiian guitars, mandolins and ukuleles by this important American maker.
• Harpguitars.net - links to my new super site.