No way is that the original finish. It looks like somebody took a can of white paint to the badly damaged and largely missing original gilt plasterwork, and...
I seriously doubt the date of that harp. It has the forchette mechanism that Erard patented in 1793, and the style is Grecian, very similar to the Erard...
If anyone wants pics of another single action Dodd for comparison I can post links to the pictures of mine---which looks very different from this one. ... ...
sorry... had an email address issue.... this is what iot should have said... Hi there, The London Erard worksop started using single arm pedals in 1803. ...
Greetings fellow antique harp addiction sufferers. Does anyone have the serial number of the Dodd, that might help. I am sitting in fornt of a nice warm fire...
Hi there, Paula's Dodd is no. 171 and has the 92 St martin's address... so I recon its pretty early. Re the wee choc. it could well be the piece from Mike B's...
Hi there, one of my students has an Erat which is in the same sort of number bracket: it has springs in the mechanism, 2 part pedals, and the hems with...
Hi Maria! I spent a lot of time with Bruce Dickey over the last couple of weeks (we played a concert together at the Bloomington Early Music Festival), and he...
Hi everyone, Mike is right, Bob--the Dodd in question is serial no. 171, which seems early. I love the discussion on this harp--I'm learning so much. Please...
Where are the Dodd #'s? Mine-I've never found a number that I thought to be a serial #. It says: Dodd (92 St. Martin's Lane) London No.30 Is 30 the serial...
Okay, so I posted the picture, but somehow I didn't click the right buttons and it ended up not in its own album but under "picture frame composition recipes"...
I was looking for Dodd info on the web, and came across this site and put in the locations that have harps. Unfortunately, the only Dodd items listed on the...
By the way, it appears that Dodd moved to Berners Street from St. Martin's Lane in 1823, so No. 171 would have to be earlier than that based on the St....
Evangeline, the serial number is on the same place on my Dodd as yours appears to be (hard to say exactly since only a portion of the harp is visible in your...
Paula, Photos are great! I love photos! So you mean the number by the name etc. is the serial number? Mine is located at the bigger end of the neck-the end...
Evangeline: Sounds like your Dodd #30 must be very old indeed, if Paula's is #171 and is pre-1823. I would love to find out how old my "Stumpy" (J.A. Stumpff...
I found a link on some webpage for an Erard registry, but when you go there it doesn't really mention it. Does such a thing exist? I think it would be cool...
Born in Ruhla, Thurgingia. Has the same birthday as Mozart. Came to London on Easter Sunday, 1790. Before that he had traveled thru Gotha & Hamburg Some...
We would all like to see every antique harp that comes our way restored to "like new"; authentic in every respect, with as much original content as possible....
I was googling 92 St. Martins Lane (London), and was wondering if St Martins and St Martin's were the same place, just different ways of writing it. Could...
The iternational list of instruments is partly form the Pitt Rivers Museum, Univ. Oxford. They emailed all the musems and country houses in the UK asking if...
Howard... no!!! I'm completely with you... we have too many silent specimens, like stuffed animals in glass cases... and it is VITAL that people get to hear...
My dear old Stumpy is, as you may recall, a JA Stumpff Grecian, double action, which appears to be in possession of all his original parts. I've restrung him...
