I've never seen a picture of an Erard with this sort of finish. Is this the original? ...
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Dwyn Harben
darkblueowl
May 26, 2007 5:19 am
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...
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Pat Marshall
belthil142
May 27, 2007 3:04 am
There is an antique Dodd Single Action Pedal Harp circa 1791 for sale $4000 Canadian in British Columbia. See pictures at ...
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Howard Bryan
harpergeorge...
May 27, 2007 5:11 pm
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...
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SwingEva
May 28, 2007 6:36 pm
Wasn't that harp purchased by someone on this list? In a message dated 5/27/2007 1:15:41 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, howard@... writes: I seriously...
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Mike Parker
mike_the_harp
May 30, 2007 3:45 pm
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SwingEva
May 30, 2007 3:51 pm
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. ... ...
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Mike Parker
mike_the_harp
May 30, 2007 4:00 pm
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. ...
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pendragonwriter
May 30, 2007 7:23 pm
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...
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Maria
infoarparla
May 30, 2007 7:38 pm
I have an Erat no.345. It would be nice to exchange opinions about erats. yours, Maria Cleary...
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Mike Parker
mike_the_harp
May 30, 2007 8:12 pm
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...
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Mike Parker
mike_the_harp
May 30, 2007 8:41 pm
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...
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Paula
fairhillfox
May 30, 2007 11:54 pm
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...
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Paula
fairhillfox
May 31, 2007 12:18 am
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...
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Paula
fairhillfox
May 31, 2007 12:24 am
Sorry...I thought this message was going privately to Maria. My apologies to the rest of the list. Paula...
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SwingEva
May 31, 2007 12:24 am
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...
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SwingEva
May 31, 2007 12:37 am
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"...
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SwingEva
May 31, 2007 12:56 am
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...
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Paula
fairhillfox
May 31, 2007 1:33 am
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....
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Paula
fairhillfox
May 31, 2007 1:39 am
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...
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SwingEva
May 31, 2007 1:54 am
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...
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Dwyn Harben
darkblueowl
May 31, 2007 12:47 pm
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...
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SwingEva
May 31, 2007 12:53 pm
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...
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SwingEva
May 31, 2007 5:43 pm
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...
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Howard Bryan
harpergeorge...
May 31, 2007 6:36 pm
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....
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SwingEva
May 31, 2007 7:13 pm
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/html_units/1820s/t18250915-98.html Is this perhaps Edward & Thomas Dodd as in Dodd Harps? ...
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SwingEva
May 31, 2007 7:37 pm
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...
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pendragonwriter
May 31, 2007 7:53 pm
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...
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Mike Parker
mike_the_harp
May 31, 2007 10:54 pm
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...
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Dwyn Harben
darkblueowl
Jun 1, 2007 4:57 am
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...
