Honestly I have to say Christmas carols, bog (forgive the term!) standard Irish tunes etc dont really bother me. Yes I sometimes groan and say Not another...
Dear people, in March You can hear and see me live twice. At the Peñarpa at the Martin-Luther-Church in Cologne on March 7 and at the Literaturmarathon (yes: ...
Irritation at Christmas carols is not irritation at Christmas. Dislike of "Danny Boy" does no harm to St. Patrick. Most of the people who've wrote to...
Damn I hate to have to do this! But people, please, do not post anything that comes off as an personal attack on another member of this list. You can argue...
I've always thought they were played there and read something to that effect once but I can't remember where. I think the idea was that they had a Gaelic...
Dear Devinstorm, While I enjoy many of the topics discussed, they do get a bit wordy and sometimes contentious, but my biggest concern now is that they are...
Go to the Yahoo Groups home page for WireHarp: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/WireHarp/ Click on the link "Edit Membership" near (but not right at) the...
... Please can I just say that up until very recently I have enjoyed reading the posts and following the conversations. However I found the last reply to my...
... Dear Mary, I do hope you aren't referring to my post to the moderator regarding e-mails. I certainly was not singling out anyone, just that the thread had...
I have to agree with Mary when she said "I do not have the pleasure of meeting other wire harpists in person very often..." It's rough not to have a teacher...
I live in the Santa Cruz mountains, near the city of Santa Cruz, CA. I'm fortunate in that there are quite a few harpers of all types in the greater Bay Area...
I'm in Washington state, a little bit northeast of Seattle, and I have a 36-string Caswell Gwydion, no blades, and a 26-string Triplett Avalon, full blades....
I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area, in Fremont (south of Oakland, north of San Jose). Lots of harpists/ers here. My #1 harp is a gut-strung Thormahlen Swan, but...
I live in Lilburn, GA - about 10 miles northeast of Atlanta. I currently have three wire harps - 25 string and 30 string Trinitys with full levers and a 22...
I am in West Wales UK. I own an Ardival Kilcoy - she is my pride and joy. I am teaching myself with Cynthia Cathcarts books, Ann Heymanns and one or two...
I live in Placerville, CA which is located about 37 miles east of Sacramento. Placerville is in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. I am a Wire Harp...
Hi All, I live in Wewahitchka, Florida. It's a very small town about an hour away from Panama City, Florida. I play a triplett 25 wire with full blades, in...
Wow! Italy!! Be sure to go to San Gimignano. Andrea Piazza lives there and often performs in the museum courtyard. He inspired me to learn to play the harp. He...
Roll call, is it? I'll play! Well, I don't have a wire-strung harp yet, but after seventeen years of playing (my baby is a walnut Dusty Strings 32-string), I...
*wave* I live invisibly in Southeast London, UK. I have a 24-string Witcher Trinity (brass and silver), a 32-string Cunningham custom (brass and electric...
I live in Sacramento, California. An unlikely Cow-town sort of place to find wireharpers, but northern California seems to be graced with quite a few...
Hi . I'm in Morgantown, West Virginia. There are a few harpers here,and an active group called Harping for Harmony. I'm about the only wire harper, though....
Guess I can de-lurk for a moment & be sociable... I'm another one in the region known as San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA. In my case, I'm over the...
That little pump-knot you see on the extreme NE corner of Tennessee is where I do my harping, up in the Appalachian mountains a few miles from the AT. Not...
Irish music - as indeed all other musics of any culture that has ever been - has gone thru quite a number of changes over the centuries. The harpers that came...
... is where I do my harping, up in the Appalachian mountains a few miles from the AT. Not exactly a bastion of harping tradition but the deer and squirrels...
... Tennessee ... miles ... deer ... to ... 22 ... I'm ... she ... from ... music ... Oh, forgot to add that the wire harp I'm waiting for is an Ancient Irish...
Hello, Live in Winston-Salem, NC. Have a beautiful Otway replica made by Daniel Larson of MN. Started out with a nylon string harp and then switched to wire...