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Texas Early Music Project Daniel Johnson, Artistic Director presents An Early Christmas 8 PM Saturday, December 13, 2008 First English Lutheran Church, 3001...
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Mark your calendars for February 26 - 28, 2009! Harp Journeys 4th annual festival will feature FRANK VOLTZ as guest artist. Other faculty includes Emily...
Our new Early Music group, The Musicians of Otter's Court, performed for the first and second times on Sunday and Monday evening, Dec. 14 and 15, in...
Hello everyone,  Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukkah, Happy New Year to all. :)  I'm wondering about harps in the New World. Is it known if any harps (I...
We just delivered an early crochet harp to the family whose ancestor brought it to America. The harp was a Blaicher, and I believe that it was built before...
Matthew Wall was sent to New Brunswick in 1830 by the Belfast Harp Society. Because of that and the newspaper description it sounds like he played a Gaelic...
Thanks for that link, Peter. How well we know those 'hard metallic sounds'  grrrrrrr Has anyone ever experimented with putting felt pads on the nail...
Howard, I took some measurements of the early harps in the Musée de la Musique in Paris back in 2003. I have uploaded a copy of my report to the museum into...
Howard, those sound fascinating - wow, so old, and the harps have survived. That's wonderful you get to work with these antique instruments. Could you...
Hi, Alexis, et al, The crochet action was used in the 18th C with some carryover into the early 19th C.. Harps using it were single-action, usually tuned in ...
Yes, amazing - how often is it that a whole original antique harp survives?! Â Does any of you happen to know about the harp on display at Trinity College...
I just remembered another Irish harper who played in America in the 18th century, Michael Keane. He was employed by the governor of North Carolina and would...
A customer for whom I have restored several instruments is in need of some quick cash for some unexpected medical expenses. He asked me to sell his Erard...
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In July I was given a crochet harp of uncertain origin for restoration. Paul K. has seen the instrument. It is in pretty bad shape, and there are no...
Improvising on Renaissance Dances with Paula Fagerberg Join us while we learn some of the most popular ground basses and dance chord progressions of the...
I refer to La Tarantella, by L'Arpeggiata - Christina Pluhar, Alpha SA 503. Scenario 1 - you're already all listening to it & just keeping very quiet. Scenario...
Hello to all the harp players out there! It's time once again to update all the listings on the Celtic Harp Page! As always we're especially interested in harp...
I'm curious about others' experiences with this harp page. On several occasions during the past two years, I tried sending info to the Celtic Harp Page...
I've not heard of this ensemble before, Richard - have ordered a copy of this CD on your recommendation :D Happy new year to you and to all members of the...
I hope you like it after all my raving! ... of course, it's always subjective, so I'll be interested to learn what anyone else who who has/gets this thinks of...
Paula, I wish I could make that! Unfortunately there are enough things going on here that it would be very difficult. Is there a book that you know of that...
... Well, there are all those 15th-century basse-dance tenors. Most of them survive as just a series of breves, but a few (e.g. Danse de Cleves) have...
Hmmm, I had the same story with the ad for my harps. But having an experience of dealing with them before, when they actually warned me not to put too many...
Hi Howard! Stephen Bloch gave some good advice. Another book to consider is one by Editions Fuzeau called something like 50 Renaissance Dances. It gives a good...
Hi, Paula, Thanks! We are moving right along. We have a renaissance night at Lynchburg College in February, and some possible paying gigs in the Spring. We ...
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