Alasdair, Have only had a brief look at new stuff....seems very interesting....looking forward to going over it in more detail when I get a chance...but yeah,...
Dear JP, Indeed, why no faoidheall mhór, good question. Working with only the two main major keys mentioned by Bunting works quite well and most of the time...
This is brilliant Alasdair but you give us as much work to do now as you have done yourself! Roll on the complete Gaelic harpers edition of Carolan's tunes and...
Hi Ralph, Sorry to be slow in replying on this ... Not sure what you mean by "Celtic"? ... Sounds like a medieval harp would be best than - Trinity, Queen Mary...
... wrote: Thanks for your help, Simon! This is BTW, just research I'm doing FAR in advance of buying. So, no rush! I have a relative in a part of the U.S.,...
Dear Simon, ... songs with appropriate tunings, suggested harmony / hands division and ornamentation........ < Quite! Roll on the Gaelic harp college and...
Dear Alasdair I can not find the term 'Epistomologically tight-arsed fashion' anywhere in Bunting, whats its precedent? Best wishes Keith ... and ... and ... ...
Hello Ralph, I see, by "large" you are referring to any of the historical models in contrast to some of the bizarrely small modern creations that are supposed...
... Thanks Simon, Yes, I'm hoping to obtain a 'monster' historical harp (32+ strings) sometime in the future. I'm not considering comissioning a luthier who's...
Dear Keith, The precedent indicative has a very active voice these days but is way too imperfect. The precedent subjunctive is unfortunately only too passive...
Ralph, If you get a suitable chuck of timber to make a harp of this size out of, please do not under kiln dry it, there is a 80% chance that it will crack and...
Ah,Petrie, it all makes perfect sense, I had always wondered how two pages from Petrie's collection turn up in the middle of one of the National Library of...
... Chad, Thanks for the advice. My tendancy to want to cure the wood is due to the fact that, since I live in the desert a temperature change of 40 degrees F...
Dear Keith, Interpretatively, the evidence fits best with musical norms in my view if you treat it as the range of the singing bard. Singing bards in Gaeldom...
Ralph, Glad my two cents worth could help. I understand the impulse to want to dry the timber especially if the instrument is going to be used in a dry...
Dear Alasdair Thanks, I see where you are heading and yes my paragraph was badly written, I did mean a composite singing range and not one individual singer....
Dear Keith, ... thirds or more of what the harpers at the Belfast Festival played were Carolan pieces and that they also sung. < I find that the evidence is...
Chad, Ralph, Simon I would like to join your and Ralph's discussion about making a single piece body for a near historical Harp. I consider myself more an...
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Hello Joe, You can put photos here: http://uk.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/photos There is such a difference between your timbers and your climate that...
Oh for more singers interested in this. presumably there is a big difference between the choices made by a singer-harper, and by a singer who has a harper...
Yes, it definitley needs more singers to be involved, but also a greater clarity of which period is being looked at.'the older system' performing syllabic...
Dear Keith, Would you know how many times does the word reacaire appear as part of the musical triumvirate versus how many times the word bàrd appears as part...
Simon Where can I get Irish Willow of sufficient size? Joe ... From: Simon Chadwick <simon@...> Reply-To: clairseach@... Date:...
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Dear Alasdair A very good question, apart from in secondary 'academic' sources I think I have only ever seen it occur once in any of the Gaelic material I have...
Dear friends- I'd like to pipe in and voice my support for including singers in our exertions. I've looked for possible voice types among some of my ...
Dear Keith, Thanks for the information about the Antrim and Down lineage of MacCracken - which I remember now! (There's a rule as well which you're taught at...
Dear Keith, I wouldn't interpre Martin's use of 'pronounced' too much here. He has an interesting turn of phrase in English for Gaelic matters (particularly...
Hello, I am wondering if there is any information out there on the little grids that appear at the end of the second group of caniadau (pp. 66 - 101) of the...
