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    Robert Adelson

    Nouvelle méthode pour apprendre à jouer de la harpe (1774) by Michel Corrette

    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
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    May 25
    Lewis Jones

    Erard double-action harp no. 1955

    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
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    Feb 23, 2019
    Mike Baldwin

    New book: Harp Making in Late-Georgian London

    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. -------------------------------------------------
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    Aug 27, 2020
    lucygrolladams

    Charles, or Karol Groll?

    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
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    Jul 05, 2020
    jon

    Original Harp Compo Moulds

    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
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    Mar 04, 2019
    p.poulopoulos

    New article on Erard harp No 2631 at the Deutsches Museum

    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
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    Jun 27, 2019
    hurrellharp

    THE EGAN IRISH HARPS: Tradition, patrons and players by Nancy Hurrell. Published by Four Courts Press, 2019.

    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
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    Apr 16, 2019
    p.poulopoulos

    Reports of the harp workshop in the Galpin Society Newsletter and in Camac harps blog

    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
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    Feb 20, 2019
    p.poulopoulos

    Podcast on Erard Harp at the Deutsches Museum

    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
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    Feb 04, 2019
    p.poulopoulos

    New article on the pedal harp in Germany around 1800

    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
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    Apr 26
    Robert Adelson

    New Erard book

    Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce the publication of my new book, Erard: A Passion for the Piano (Oxford University Press, 2021). This is the first of my two monographs on the history of the Erard firm; a second on the Erard harp is in preparation. Here is a brief description of the book
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    Mar 19, 2021
    Giuliano Marco Mattioli

    Érard's Empire single-action harp with no number on plate

    Hello everybody, After discussing with Robert Adelson regarding a harp I'm currently restoring, he suggested to write in this forum to hear different opinions. The harp is an Erard Empire simple-action, with soupape. The plate doesn't bear any number whatsoever I think this instrument is almost iden
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    Aug 23, 2020
    Elise Kolle

    Portrait Database

    Hi all! I have created an online database of portraits of female harpists between 1720-1850. This database is a free resource and I hope it will be useful to members of this community! I am always looking for additions to the database, and there is a "submissions" section of the website where you ca
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    Jun 22, 2020
    Mike Baldwin

    Year 2 of theearlypedalharp.net

    In around 6 weeks theearlypedalharp.net will be a year old. Over the past year 60 people have signed up as members, and we've had excellent contributions to our blog and forum pages. What next? The website will continue its focus on the early pedal harp - that is non-negotiable - but we're open
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    Dec 12, 2019
    Robert Adelson

    Harp makers' collections

    Dear colleagues, I am currently studying the phenomenon of harp makers who collected instruments (their own—for example, by preserving prototype models—or by other makers), even if these were not always acknowledged as 'collections' per se . I am aware of collections maintained by Erard, Pley
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    Jun 05, 2019
    p.poulopoulos

    New article on Erard harps

    Dear colleagues and harp entusiasts, here is the link to an Open Access publication which includes a new article on Erard harps: http://woodmusick.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/COST_FP1302%20Book.pdf The article details are: Panagiotis Poulopoulos and Julin Lee, ‘A Synergy of Form, Function and Fa
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    Mar 06, 2019
    Robert Adelson

    Thomas Hamilton, Glasgow (1810-1820)

    Dear colleagues, Might anyone have any information on a Thomas Hamilton (or member of his family) who lived near Glasgow in the period 1810-1820? I am studying a harp that belonged to him, and thought that perhaps his name might appear in some of your databases or research notes. Thanks in advance
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    Feb 19, 2019
    Mike Baldwin

    Welcome to the Forum!

    It’s good to have you here! Feel free to share anything - stories, ideas, pictures or whatever is on your mind. Here you can start discussions, connect with members, reply to comments, and more. Have something to say? Leave a comment or share a post!
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    Jan 24, 2019
    Giuliano Marco Mattioli

    New book on Érard harps

    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,
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    Apr 06
    Mike Baldwin

    Book Launch - Harp Making in Late-Georgian London

    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
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    Jan 18, 2021
    mike

    How do I delete my profile, please? I can't seem to find where to do it. I have asked but not received a reply

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    Jul 09, 2020
    Mike Baldwin

    Erard single-action, no. 357

    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
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    Jun 16, 2020
    daniela_kotasova

    Article on Erard Harps in the Prague collection

    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
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    Jul 12, 2019
    p.poulopoulos

    Report of the harp workshop in the AMIS Newsletter

    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
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    May 13, 2019
    Mike Baldwin

    Head, harp maker of Dublin

    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
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    Feb 24, 2019
    Mike Baldwin

    Protect or publish?

    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
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