A bit of info for you .... In Charles Burney's A General History of Music, in the 1935 Dover reprint, Volume 1 pages 481 to 488 Richard Morris, Robert ap Haw...
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A' chàirdean chòir, Dìreach airson fios a leigeil dhuibh uile gu bheil www.calumcille.com air ais air an lìon a-rithist. Feuch gun tadhail sibh. Beannachdan, ...
Simon, In relation to variation, I sometimes think about how words affect tunes or even bass. I wonder to what degree a relatively fixed bass (at least...
A chàirdean, I'm going to stick out my neck here and suggest that the 2nd 'Air by Fingal' is a tune for Laoidh an Amadain Mhóir (Lay of the Great Fool) - not...
Dear Friends, Just a quick note to let you know that preparations are well under way for this year's Scoil na gCláirseach, which will be held in Kilkenny,...
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hi folks for anyone interested i have just got my new website up and running, with info on some of the harps i've made, contact details, video and downloads...
Hi Davy I tried, but I could not display your website, maybe too soon, because my browser got the MS could not find it when I tried to follow your URL. Joe ......
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Dear Davy, Just to let you know it worked just fine for me. Brilliant. Fair play to ye. All the best, Brenda Malloy To: clairseach@...:...
Very,very nice! Really glad to see other makers getting off the ground!!! Inspires the rest of us to work harder! I also admire your chair you have pictured it...
Davy - that's super. Nice work - Love the close up photos. Best of luck, Karen ... of us to work harder! I also admire your chair you have pictured it your...
http://www.kilroygallery.com/painting.asp?paint_num=48&coll=sceil2 Just been shown this - Peter's daughter, a few of her paintings feature her dad's harps. ...
Dear friends, Scoil na gClairseach–Summer School of Early Irish Harp will begin next Wednesday, 20th August in Kilkenny School of Music, Ormonde Rd, ...
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-- Siobhán Armstrong Chair - Historical Harp Society of Ireland www.irishharp.org info@... +353 (0)51 646286 Kilballyquilty Carrick-on-Suir Co....
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Hi all, This is a little off topic, but may be of interest to the readers of this group who are interested in ap Huw... I would like to announce a project that...
A chàirdean, I was (again) going over the text from Longes mac nUsnig (the exile of the sons of Uisneach) Fogur tuinni toirm Noísi ba ceol bind bithchloísi ...
An interesting discourse Alasdair, what was the earliest date of the manuscript of the text? Toirm is also sometimes used in later verse in relation to the...
Keith, a charaid, Longes mac nUsnig is from the book of Leinster so this written form of the quotation might be datable to around 1160, which is relatively ...
Well Alasdair, it just gets odder, according to the statistical data from the Robert Matheson's Special Report on Surnames in Ireland based on the births...
Hi Folks! Paul Best here! I have just joined this group. Simon, I know you're out there.. I've just put the silver bass strings on my Lewandowski harp, and...
... tradition and build all the Harps that I play. ... on PVC pipe Harps. If I can attach photos or files I will send you pictures, if you are interested. ......
Keith, I'd put the lack of Brannaghs and Breathnachs as surnames used in English simply down to the fact that these forms are intrinsically the Gaelic...
A chàirdean, There once existed in Gaelic the word 'deil', plural 'deala', (teat). Figuratively, this was used to represent 'gaol' (affection) or 'càirdeas'...
Hi Chad, I've just joined this list and have been reading the archives. I sent a posting about amplifying the Kinnellen, and am wondering if the K@K Twin...
