Gaelic Harps and Harpers in Ireland and Scotland
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Description: A history of the clarsach. Developments, tradition, bibliography, and pictures.
Gaelic Harps & Harpers in Ireland & Scotland Gaelic Harps & Harpers in Ireland & Scotland by The Honourable Robert Ruadh of the Isles The harp played by the Irish and Scottish harpers of the old Gaelic order was an aristocratic instrument, played in the courts of kings and before the chiefs of clans. It was much like other non-pedal harps in use in our own time, but differs in that it was strung with bronze wire rather than gut or nylon. Its sound-box was carved in one piece out of wood from the bog. It had other-worldly associations, and in the hands of a master harper had power over its listeners to bring them great joy, or cause them to weep with sorrow, or lull them to sleep.
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| Page title: | Gaelic Harps & Harpers in Ireland & Scotland |
| Keywords: | harp harps harper irish gaelic utrecht jubal caedmon psalter scottish music instrument cruit clarsach clairseach trinity lamont sirr bard fili poet denis dennis hempson edward bunting ann heymann otway highland king david queen mary derricke carolan belfast 1792 wire string strung medieval roslyn rensch joan rimmer keith sanger alison kinnaird robin williamson grainne yeats |
| Description: | A history of harps. Gaelic Harps and Harpers in Ireland. |
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