The single-action pedal harp provided a surrogate for an imagined ancient Celtic form in a portrayal of the Ossian mythos on the theatre stage in London toward the end of the 18th century. It was paired with the Irish union bagpipes. This blog post discusses that the relationship in both tangible and romanticized regards.

Readers of The Early Pedal Harp may be interested in the new online exhibition “À Paris! Les musiciens d’Europe centrale chez les éditeurs parisiens” (“In Paris! Central European Musicians and Parisian Publishers”), available at https://aparis.mzk.cz Organised jointly by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Moravian Library in Brno, the exhibition explores the relationships between Central European musicians and Parisian music publishers. The accompanying texts are pr

The following conservation and restoration report by Zsolt Hidasi details his excellent work on a mid-19th century London-made Erard...