Wire harp/Clarsach Coming Autumn 2008
I
will be working on a couple of Traditional medieval harps based on The
Queen Mary, carved from the solid and held together by string tension
alone.The picture on the left is from 1991, when I made a 17 string(Brass wire) travel harp in sycamore and poplar for myself. (It sounded lovely but I made the error of fitting piano wire strings after breaking too many brass ones)
Its now I believe decorating an Irish pub in Spain!!
I will start showing pictures of my harp/s under construction from October.
Gothic Harp This graceful slender form of harp was popular between the 12th and 16th century and were gut strung and fitted with bray pins that gave the instrument a buzzing sound.
I have the museum plans of the "Nuremberg Harp" and plans to offer authentic copies of this Genuine Gothic "Bray harp" in the future.
This harp in the pictures below was completed while at university in 1995/6 It was made to the Plans In Zachary Taylors Book "Making Musical Instruments"
