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HistoricalHarp@yahoog...
Mar 1, 2008 9:41 pm
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while i am recuperating from rotator cuff surgery and can't play for the next 3 months i thought i would do some research into types of music to work on with...
Dear friends, I play the ancient Asian harp called "kugo" in Japan. This is the web page with my YouTube program http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frqV3m8vSOc And...
Why play a bray harp when you can play a monster? I thought that bray-harp hell was just a story for getting children to eat their vegetables until I saw...
Lovely looking harps...has anyone here played one? Karin ... bray-harp hell was just a story for getting children to eat their vegetables until I saw these. A...
... Yes, I have visited Claus and played one of his triples (the one belonging to Monika Mandelarz) and his large Rabe harp, and also one of his Gothic harps....
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HistoricalHarp@yahoog...
Apr 2, 2008 1:19 am
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Hi All This is to let you know that the latest HHS Bulletin has been published and posted. Everyone in the contiguous 48 should receive their copy by the...
Anyone in CA going to the renaissance faire this season. It starts Saturday. Wondering what an Italian renaissance harpist would authentically wear? Colors,...
... Renaissance faires are usually set in the late 16th century. Look at a lot of Italian pictures from that time period, but watch out for those with...
I added a photo to the photo files of my Campbell Ghent harp (Eeyore) and the costume I just finished making to wear with it at out local Renissance festival. ...
It looks like a beautiful dress! What did you use for the embellishment? Did you hand embroider it? Next we want to see a photo with you in the dress! Therese...
HI Theresa, The embellishments are actually the remains of a dress I found in an antique store. The dress's main fabric had torn and frayed but the lovely...
... Saw the photo--you must have worked very hard :-) What was your inspiration? D.Peters (who does some historical costuming) "Some musicians really fall in...
HI Peter, It is based on clothing of the 14th cent. a sideless gown. I play at a renni fair here in Michigan and felt like I wanted a dress that was of the...
... Yes, it does look as if it would be comfortable. I've never seen any depictions of sideless surcotes that short; did you shorten it to improve mobility...
opps sorry I was looking at your last name. Flat forehead attack! Please accept my apology it was an honest mistake. Julie **************Planning your...
No, I didn't shorten it that all there was to the vintage dress. I suppose I could have taken the ornamentation off a put it on a sidless coat of the correct...
... Ah. I must have misread; I thought you had appliqued the vintage motif onto new fabric. My bad :-) ... Or you could keep the "vintage" surcote as is and...
Hello, historical harpists! Time for my next brain teaser - seriously I'd really like to know this. What all were the Irish people doing with harps at the...
See www.earlygaelicharp.info and click on "history" at the top, then "Early medieval". Harps and harpers had relatively high status and ordinary folk probably...
Whoops, I think the ceis was some sort of tuning device. I can't remember what the little instrument that hung from the waist was called. Peter Wilson...
Hi Julie, I love your red and black rennie costume for 15th cent. Did you research colors? Is it accurate that there was not black or red used in that time...
HI Catherine, Lets see I chose the colors by what I had to work with the vintage dress that the beautiful embroidery was on is black and the red is predominate...
... and of course musicians were apparently exempt from the sumptuary laws, so you can wear anything you like, so long as it's period or sort of recent & get...
Hello folks! I have been a lurker on this group for a little while and finally got bold enough to share some photos of my harp with the nice people here. Last...
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