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Sep 1, 2007
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Hi, I discovered this list today, and have just joined it. I am delighted to see that there exists a list for historical harps. Since you ask for an ...
Kåre A. Lie
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Sep 1, 2007
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Hej! I've been to your site many times, as I share your interest in "Viking music." Good to have you here. You may also be interested in this list:...
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Sep 2, 2007
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... Thank you, Larry! My book will contain more detailed discussions of Viking music in general, and of the tunes, their sources and the probabilities for...
"Kåre A. Lie"
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Sep 2, 2007
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Welcome, Kare! I corresponded with you once on the harplist, and am glad you have found this historical group. Flory...
Flory
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Sep 2, 2007
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... As a new member to the HistoricalHarp List, I am browsing the message archive (and finding lots of interesting stuff). And - just in passing - I just...
Kåre A. Lie
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Sep 2, 2007
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Hej du Kåre, och välkommen! Glad to see you over here. ;-) Paula...
Paula
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Sep 3, 2007
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Yes, changing the tuning from hexichord to diatonic is not a problem. To maintain a similar tension, you will probably want to raise the pitch of your bottom...
Craig Robert Pierpont
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Sep 3, 2007
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In a message dated 9/3/2007 3:05:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time, crpierpont@... writes: Yes, changing the tuning from hexichord to diatonic is not a...
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Sep 3, 2007
10:29 pm
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As I am new to the bray harp I would like to thank you in advance for indulging my questions and not snicker at how mundane they may be. When the brays are...
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Sep 14, 2007
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On mine I get kind of a "bwaaaahhh" sound that includes a lot of harmonic. And on mine either it brays or it doesn't. I'll be interested to hear what others...
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Sep 14, 2007
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it's a matter of playing around with how it's positioned on the string. trial and error, really but once it starts to bray you'll always know how to position...
gregory balsewicz
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Sep 14, 2007
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Each harp I've heard seems to have its own "personality" to the way the brays vibrate. I suppose, physically, the bray tip is a supremely sensitive thing; the...
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Sep 14, 2007
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As you say, each has its own personality. The style of bray pin makes a huge difference too. My wife plays a large gothic bray by George Stevens - superb bray...
Richard York
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Sep 14, 2007
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Bill Taylor told me that means that you've set the brays just right (I wondered about that too). If you listen closely to his "Two Worlds of the Welsh Harp"...
Edgar Peters
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Sep 14, 2007
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That's reassuring, Ed! I was noticing yesterday, while changing a string for my wife ( how's that for service!) that some of the notes resonate the 5th &...
Richard York
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Sep 14, 2007
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OH thanks that means I only have 23 more strings to set "just right"? Yeah!? Julie _,.-:**`**:-.,_,.-:**`**:-.,_,.-:**`**:-.,_,-:**`**:-.,_, .-:**`**:-.,_ "A...
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Sep 14, 2007
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Hi, I tried to send this question to the list some time ago, but I cannot see that it ever reached the list. What are bray pins called in other languages? I...
"KÃ¥re A. Lie"
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Sep 14, 2007
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Adjusting your brays is a fiddly thing. It is not the bray itself that vibrates. The bray is set close enough to the string that when the string vibrates, it...
Craig Robert Pierpont
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Sep 14, 2007
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Oh definitely this! Making your adjustments with the "flag"end of the bray is an almost certain "buzz kill". Also, I have sometimes found it helpful to grip...
Craig Robert Pierpont
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Sep 15, 2007
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Kåre , An interesting question. Have you asked this on the "regular" harplist? There are some people there considerably knowledgeable about things...
Craig Pierpont
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Sep 15, 2007
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I've found that the harmonics are actually the other strings ringing in sympathy rather than a harmonic on the string itself. It's a lot like the wire harp,...
Edgar Peters
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Sep 17, 2007
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Check out the downloads at http://www.quadrivium.net Can't wait for the CD to come out! Peter Wilson...
Peter Wilson
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Sep 17, 2007
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I was looking through Ann Heymann's coupled hands book for inspiration and it dawns on me with the narrow spacing of the bray harp perhaps coupled hand ...
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Sep 19, 2007
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good question, julie. the usage of the bray harp is something that needs more thoughtful introspection. its unique voice makes it perfect for playing...
gregory balsewicz
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Sep 19, 2007
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I'd like to get a bray harp someday, so before I spend several thousand dollars I have to know what you mean by "unsatisfying"! I know that any instrument can...
Peter Wilson
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Sep 19, 2007
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Yes, the bray harp is a different instrument than a non-bray harp that just so happens to have the same stringing arrangement. It's like comparing an organ...
Edgar Peters
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Sep 19, 2007
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... perhaps, peter, but the novelty wears thin quickly. i find that the eveness of tone is problematic. perhaps the upper brays were disengaged to offer a...
gregory balsewicz
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Sep 20, 2007
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Hi all, Interesting discussion. I can't help but wonder whether perhaps bray harps are similar to pianos or violins, in that some are made with more mastery...
Juliet
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Sep 20, 2007
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At 11:36 20.09.2007 +0000, you wrote: Hi, We should also consider the fact that bray harps were the standard harps in most of Europe throughout the...
"Kåre A. Lie"
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