The Miner Museum of Vintage, Exotic & Just Plain Musical Instruments

Welcome to The Miner Museum of Vintage, Exotic & Just Plain Unusual Musical Instruments!

I'm collector, recording artist and scholar Gregg Miner, and I'll be your host for this unique tour of my private collection.

Over the last fifty years, like many musicians, I often picked up the occasional odd instrument I stumbled across - I just happened to stumble across a lot of really cool instruments.

Photo by Laurie Evans

"What a fantastic, wonderfully brilliant way to present an exotic collection of plucked stringed instruments!"
- John Schneider, KPFK

Eventually I started upgrading and filling in the gaps, focusing on acquiring an example of the major string groups - guitars, mandolins, banjos, ukuleles, zithers, harps, lutes, etc. My specialty became the harp guitar family and the many "hybrid" instruments (combinations, logical or otherwise, of two different instruments) - the "just plain unusual."

Photo Inventory of the Miner Museum

The 100 Instruments of "A Christmas Collection"

A music video glimpse of the Miner Museum

Recent Acquisitions

Visitors to the Miner Museum

We regret that the Miner Museum is not open to the public.
It is open by private appointment only to dedicated plucked stringed instrument researchers, collectors, aficionados and musicians. Please provide references if requesting a visit.