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Dear friends and colleagues, I am delighted to announce the publication of my new book, Erard: Empire of the Harp . This is the second of my two monographs on the history of the Erard firm; a companion volume to my book on the Erard piano released last year. This new book on the harp is differen

Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce the publication of my book La famiglia Érard. Un percorso storico fra documenti e strumenti musicali , n. 31 of the book series "Personaggi della musica", by Zecchini editore. Thanks to an extensive cross-data reference between documents and instruments,

Although a little late having been postponed before Christmas, I will be holding an online launch for my book, Harp Making in Late-Georgian London , on Saturday 20 February from 18:00-19:30 GMT. Tickets are free and can be booked here. All are welcome

Does anyone know the whereabout of Erard single-action, no. 357, bought by the Princess of Wales on 11 November 1800? A site member is revising the late Sir Oliver Millar's work on British pictures in the Royal Collection and has enquired about the instrument that appears in the portrait by Thoma

Dear colleagues and friends, thanks for the possibility of further communication through this discussion forum. I would like to point out to all people who are interested a new article about Erard Harps in the Collection of the Czech Museum of Music Prague https://content.sciendo.com/view/journal

Dear colleagues and friends, a report of the harp workshop in Munich, written by Elise Kolle, a harpist and currently a harp researcher at Stiftelsen Musikkulturens Främjande in Stockholm, has been published in the latest Newsletter of the American Musical Instrument Society: https://docs.wixstat

Whilst working through the journals of the J. G. Morley harp company, the following entry (20 July 1892) grabbed my attention. It refers to a Grecian harp (no. 11) by Head of Dublin. I've not encountered this maker before. That the harp is described as 'Grecian' suggests that it was made before c

Over the time I’ve been researching harp makers (some twenty-five years), I’ve held to the belief that it is best to keep my unpublished research close, to not share newly discovered sources or realisations, fearing that someone will ‘steal my work.’ I’ve sat on more or less all of it. I have a da

Dear colleagues, Maria Cleary has just published a fascinating and important preliminary report about the recently discovered harp method (1774) by Michel Corrette. The full citation of the article is: Cleary, Maria Christina. “The Rediscovery of the Nouvelle Méthode Pour Apprendre à Jouer De La Har

Dear colleagues, I wonder whether anyone might be able to help me to locate the Erard (London) double-action harp numbered 1955, if it still exists, or might have any information about its history after it was sold on 11 February 1824 to a Miss Shearman of 73 Guildford Street, [London]. Students

My new book went on sale last Friday. It's been a long time coming (10 years of continual solid work - over 25 years working on and off) and has been doubly hard as I chose to start a publishing company and to release it myself. I hope you like it. -------------------------------------------------

I found this web page when researching family members, and there was a post about Charles Groll. My question is, is he the same person as Karol Gröll, brother of Tomas, and Kataryna, and son of Wilhelm, who had a clock-making workshop in London in the 1790's? I know that 'Katherine' and 'William' st

I’ve come across a company www.georgejackson.com who have been in business since 1780 and originally supplied Erard who was charged £66, apparently in 1811 (‘To 55 harps ornamentd compleat @ 24/-) with some of the compo decoration for the Grecian harps. George Jackson Ltd. still has the original s

Dear colleagues and harp enthusiasts, I would like to inform you about a new article related to Erard harps in the journal 'Studies in Conservation'. The article focuses on a detailed technological study of the decoration on the Erard harp No 2631 (London, 1818) at the Deutsches Museum, including

Book is now available online. Dublin maker John Egan ( fl. 1797-1829), known for his Portable Irish Harp model, also produced single-,double- and triple-action pedal harps. Awarded the royal warrant as harp maker to George IV, Egan presented an extraordinary winged-maiden harp to the king and supp

Dear colleagues and friends, a report of the harp workshop in Munich, written by Daniela Kotašová, curator of musical instruments at the National Museum Prague, has been published in the latest Galpin Society Newsletter: http://www.galpinsociety.org/index2_htm_files/GSNFeb2019.pdf see pp.12-14. Also

Dear colleagues and harp enthusiasts, a recently produced podcast focusing on the Erard double-action harp at the Deutsches Museum was published last week. It is available (Podcast No 2, only in German) here: www.deutsches-museum.de/forschung/podcast Some of the music heard during the podcast was k

Dear colleagues and harp enthusiasts, I would like to inform you that my article „So wenig kultivirt, so ganz vernachlässigt“: Die Pedalharfe in Deutschland um 1800 has been published in the “Open Access” journal Phoibos: Zeitschrift für Zupfmusik (University of Bayreuth). The article provides a