Linda Jane Manzer is a Canadian master luthier renowned for her archtop, flat top, and harp guitars.
Pikasso guitar
Pat Metheny with the 42-string Pikasso guitar
The harp guitar is a guitar-based stringed instrument generally defined as a "guitar, in any of its accepted forms, with any number of additional unstopped strings that can accommodate individual plucking." The word "harp" is used in reference to its harp-like unstopped open strings. A harp guitar must have at least one unfretted string lying off the main fretboard, typically played as an open string.
Gibson Style U, c. 1911.
Early 20th. Century harp guitars with a Gibson at left.
Harp guitars at the Museum of Making Music.
Several models exhibited.