Today I took a saw and sliced a section off of my HHSI Student Trinity harp.
Month: March 2016
Pìobaireachd Society conference
Yesterday I was at the Birnam Hotel in Dunkeld, to address the Pìobaireachd Society‘s annual conference on the subject of “clàrsach ceòl mór”.
I was delighted and honoured to be asked by the Society to give this presentation on my work.
Trinity College harp stringing and tuning
I designed the stringing and tuning regime for the HHSI Student Trinity harps back in 2005, based on how I had previously set up my old copy of the Queen Mary harp. My aim then was to present what we knew of the 18th century Irish harp tradition – to have na comhluighe at g below middle c’, and to have a complete octave below na comhluige down to cronan G.
Archiving the old strings
I just removed the old strings from the Dolmetsch harp.