Here’s my latest attempt at 3D photography. It’s not very good but It was a first attempt! Continue reading 3D model of the harp
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Firing the bells
I have never done this, or seen it done, or even heard it done. But here is a video on Youtube showing the ringers at Blackburn firing! Thanks to the Ringing World letters page for this link! Continue reading Firing the bells
The Fairy Queen
As I have been practicing the Fairy Queen for tomorrow’s concert, and I have the Downhill harp here this week, I thought I would do a quick Youtube of it as a record of where I am at the moment.
An cruit bheag ‘s an cruit mhor
Practicing for my Carolan concert this coming Thursday lunchtime, I have got the Downhill harp back from my student who usually has it and I was reminded of how I often talk about the importance of using an appropriate instrument for different repertory. Continue reading An cruit bheag ‘s an cruit mhor
Carolan’s Concerto
I am preparing for my Carolan concert in a couple of weeks time, and today I made up the posters ready to be put around town.
Playing a fiddle tune
At today’s concert in All Saints Church Hall, I played Cumha Raonuill Mhic Ailein Òig on the fiddle, as part of my new programme “The contest betwixt fiddle & harp”. I was very nervous to present the fiddle in public but it seemed to go down very well.
Music and Mathematics
On Wednesday I attended an interesting panel discussion, part of a series “In Numbers”, “on the ways in which mathematics interacts with the humanities”.
MacNeil of Barra’s March
I am going to play the replica Queen Mary harp in Kisimul Castle on Barra in the Autumn, and so I thought I should get a MacNeil of Barra tune up and running. I am finding it a great challenge to get MacNeil of Barra’s March working on the harp.
Wighton centre, Dundee
Here’s a photo of me taken at today’s Lament for the Union concert at the Wighton Centre in Dundee.
Bowed-harp workshop
Yesterday I was in Edinburgh to present my “bowed lyre workshop” at the Northern Streams festival.