Keith ... Of course. I was thinking in more general terms of style and idiom. We have an instrument, i.e replica medieval or baroque harps, e.g. a HHSI Student...
Limavady Borough Council in association with the Historical Harp Society of Ireland presents a 200th Anniversary Celebration of the early Irish harper Dennis...
I-tunes has an old recoding of Nansi Richards playing this on the Welsh triple harp. It's the Edward Jones 1802 version from his "musical and Poetical Relicks...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/music/tv/ I didnt see it but heard there were harps in it Its repeated on Tuesday 7pm Anyone else in Scotland been watching?...
Hi All, Just been to the link Simon posted if you go down the page you can watch a snippet of Catriona McKay on the Harp accompanied by a man on a lute (I...
The preamble leading up to the harp was fine, good pictures of some of the stones with correct dates and so on, but the part with actual harper turned into the...
I have been watching it and enjoying. Its probably not in any depth but it does portray the varied types of music of the past and certainly introduced me to...
Unfortunately I only caught the second half this evening. I agree with you Keith, I also found that annoying, espescially when Ms. McKay said the clarsach was...
Well I agree mostly, it was nice in a 'raising national conciousness' kind of way but Phil was very full of himself, he has a very odd sense of appropriate...
Mary did indeed like the driving bits. I have to agree about the harp sections. All in all not a first class programme which was disappointing as it was a...
A' chàirdean, I came across this seann fhacal (old saying) in my reading today. It belongs to a genre of seann fhaclan purporting to give advice on choosing...
Dear friends, On this, the Winter Solstice, the Historical Harp Society of Ireland would like to wish you, your families and loved ones our very best wishes...
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Happy New Year all, I've posted links to Vol. II and Vol. III of Eugene O'Curry's book. These have been scanned in by google and are searchable and also...
I'm just looking through "Scottish Life and Culture : A compendium of Scottish Ethnology Volume 10: Oral Literature and Performance Culture" As well as having...
Thanks Karen. There are some other useful things on google books incl. Logan's "Scottish gael" which was mentioned here recently. I have paper copies of...
The volume in question did have a remarkedly long gestation period between submission of content and final publication,although whether long enough for the...
Thanks Keith. I decided that actually both of these looked worth having - not just for the harp articles but more for the context - its all too easy to get...
Folks, I would like to experiment playing my harp with a guitar effects pedal board... I am sure our ancestors would have loved playing with this stuff if they...
Hi Johnny, hope all is well with you I looked into micing mine up a while ago but never did it so take this all with a grain of salt, it is just what I've seen...
Hi JP, I hope you're doing well. I use a wee harp pickup that sticks to the soundboard. The tone seems to change with the barometric pressure, so I have to...
Hi Johny, Try contacting Peter Brough, he is based in Devon but has done a lot with making harps amplified by electrical means. you can access his page through...
Hey there all, Despite really disliking having to amp my harp, I've been forced had to in order to play large, loud spaces. Alas silence is no longer observed...
Hi Johnny, I don't have very much experience with this, but here's my 2p anyway. I had to amplify my harp a few times and used a free standing cartiod mic,...
Nor do I have much experience with this, but my husband uses a small simple lapel mic taped just inside the sound hole of his classical guitar and I've tried...
Hello again, Something else about pickups I forgot to mention. On the larger harps (like the Downhill or Otway) the twin pickup heads of the K&K Twin worked...
Hi Karla Your e-mail got throug to me. I use something similar, but I use some velcro tape that is intended for use as cable tiesfor computer cables. I...
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If you are awake and can see the sky, take this opportunity to see the Moon - illuminated by all the sunsets in the world. - Karen...
Clàrsach na Bànrighe (which means 'The Queen's Harp') is the brand new debut CD from Simon Chadwick. The disc presents two complementary programmes, of...
