Hello I've just joined and thought I should introduce myself. I have been playing Irish traditional music for 25 years(uilleann pipes whistles ect), I now also...
Hi Brendan - welcome to the list. Scoil? You lucky! Wish I could be there. We're going to try a few years down the road. Gotta save our pennies for it here...
Does anyone know of a 19th C Irish harper named Wall? I stumbled across this in the Canadian Encyclopedia the other day. An Irish harper's performance was...
Hi Peter - well found! Here's your man: from http://www.earlygaelicharp.info/harpers/ Matthew Wall Sent by the Belfast Harp Society to New Brunswick in 1830. I...
Hi Simon, and thanks! Very interesting stuff. I'm surprised he was here that long and must have travelled elsewhere, certainly Nova Scotia and maybe even ...
Yay! I have finally completed my harp. Wire strung with 4 silver bass strings, 16 yellow brass and 10 soft iron strings in the treble. I thought I was going to...
Well since no one else has posted yet about Irish Harp school... ...was another brilliant Summer School...personal highlights for me was Ann Heymans...
It's been almost a week since I got home, so my mind's settled and I can write about my thoughts on the Scoil na gClairseach 2006. I know that this year I've...
Dear all Hello there, and thanks to the moderator for letting me on. A short bit about me: I'm a musician, with background in classical piano, folk flute and...
Hello Martin and welcome, it has been quiet here all summer as people have been away in the real world... From what little I know about the subject Ardival...
Another beginner question I have been wondering about... Is it correct to say the 'standard' tuning is with F sharp...which can be changed to F natural on...
Hi Martin, I had a look at this piece which I know but don't play. I would abandon your chord progression analysis as unsuitable for old Gaelic music, but I...
Hi JP, this is a slow reply but that's the speed of my brain these days... our Man with the Modes is conspicious by his absence so I'll put in my penny worth.....
Dear Martin, Checking carefully through DJ's edition, I found the following binary hypothetical harmonies possible, consisting of an alternating G tetrad and A...
I don't play a lot of Carolan but every now and then I find a strange one. Strangeness is in the ear of the listener but I'm wondering if others have some...
Have to spit it out, for I've been wondering about it for a while now... I know there are people who tune their harps by ear, not with a tuner, tuning just the...
Hi Barbara, Bunting took down the method used by the old harpers, going in 5ths, octaves and 4ths. Look in the Ancient Msuic of Ireland (1840) page ...
Barbara - I'm not experienced by any stretch of the imagination, but I can't tune with the tuner. It doesn't come out sounding right. I have to do it by ear....
Scoil na gCláirseach–Summer School of Early Irish Harp 2006 The fourth annual Scoil na gCláirseach–Summer School of Early Irish Harp took place 19-25...
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Dear Barbara The article Simon linked to is useful, and the chart is good, but it doesn't give the figures. Starting from G and tuning in fourths and fifths as...
Dear mwyalchen2000, ... If anyone in the group would like to look at the whole John Bell quote, go to http://www.calumcille.com/gleusan/2.html on my website. ...
First of all, a correction. When I listed the pitches for just intonation I gave the B as 4 cents flat of equal temperament, and E as 6 cents flat. Looking at...
Hello, I've been puzzling over some of the notation in the Robert ap Huw manuscript. In particular, the notation marking the end of the diwedd (refrain),...
Hi Karen, what pages are you looking at specifically? I see some of them have the centre horizontal line cutting a D, some have ot between D's if you see what...
