@pheona1000 Hi there... no, all the iconography and surviving instruments indicate R H treble in Europe. Only the wirestrung clarsech and the late Welsh triple are left shoulder instruments, the latter largely due to Lady llanover, who would only let LH treble triples be played on her estate, and so that's what her harp makers made, and her players taught. If you look at the longest rows, its the one the left hand can play, so you couldn't play it RH bass. M
The "horrible tuning" actually adds character if you ask me. If you consider the roots of this kind of music and the time when there was no standard temperament of stringed instruments.
No, the harp is very small.. its only about 5 feet in total... I don't believe in huge instruments... I just don't think they ever existed in the general school of playing
2 different questions. Firstly, the Barberini harp and the Bologna triple are both considerably later than Orfeo. Neither is in its original form. For Italianate chromatic harps c. 1608, all of the iconography is for cnsiderably smaller instruments. the G that Montiverdi call for in Possente Spirito. and that Trabaccicalls for in a couple of works is not a standard note in composition for harp until much later on, so is hardly typical. limited space here makes detail a problem!
Tuning isn't so bad as all that; I've certainly forged ahead in performance sounding worse! The harp is beautiful, with a lovely contrast of registers while still even throughout its range. One wonders why we don't see more French triples...
Hi there.. its horribly out of tune, and I do play a c natural against a C sharp at one point.. but I was moving through 9 different harps in the course of the evening and addapting takes a moment or 3...
I built it back in 1988 (it was the first triple I built) and it is a copy of a French original from 1710.
Mike, may I very gently ask if the baroque triple harp was originally played on the left shoulder like the Welsh triple harp?
pheona1000 8 months ago
@pheona1000 Hi there... no, all the iconography and surviving instruments indicate R H treble in Europe. Only the wirestrung clarsech and the late Welsh triple are left shoulder instruments, the latter largely due to Lady llanover, who would only let LH treble triples be played on her estate, and so that's what her harp makers made, and her players taught. If you look at the longest rows, its the one the left hand can play, so you couldn't play it RH bass. M
parkerharps 8 months ago
@parkerharps - many thanks Mike for the clarification and for sharing your work.
pheona1000 8 months ago
The "horrible tuning" actually adds character if you ask me. If you consider the roots of this kind of music and the time when there was no standard temperament of stringed instruments.
CicadaKillerMan 1 year ago
Light and sweet sound !
It's different with chemballo's.
YANAGITAtokinori 1 year ago
No, the harp is very small.. its only about 5 feet in total... I don't believe in huge instruments... I just don't think they ever existed in the general school of playing
parkerharps 2 years ago
so what about the bottom G for Montiverdi? And what about tthe tall harps we have like the Barbarini in Rome and the big triple at Bologne?
barokharp 2 years ago
2 different questions. Firstly, the Barberini harp and the Bologna triple are both considerably later than Orfeo. Neither is in its original form. For Italianate chromatic harps c. 1608, all of the iconography is for cnsiderably smaller instruments. the G that Montiverdi call for in Possente Spirito. and that Trabaccicalls for in a couple of works is not a standard note in composition for harp until much later on, so is hardly typical. limited space here makes detail a problem!
parkerharps 2 years ago
Nice sound and a good clean technique... is it my imagination or are you sitting very hhigh?
barokharp 2 years ago
Tuning isn't so bad as all that; I've certainly forged ahead in performance sounding worse! The harp is beautiful, with a lovely contrast of registers while still even throughout its range. One wonders why we don't see more French triples...
straptight 2 years ago 5
Shame about the tuning, and thank you fo your honesty about it, but well, all those strings must be a nightmare to keep in pitch.
Beautifully played and realized, though.
Phil
brayharper 3 years ago 5
Those strings do look very skinny & close together - & so many of them! Might be a nightmare to play, but a pleasantly crisp sound.
BubCar2 3 years ago 4
Hi there.. its horribly out of tune, and I do play a c natural against a C sharp at one point.. but I was moving through 9 different harps in the course of the evening and addapting takes a moment or 3...
I built it back in 1988 (it was the first triple I built) and it is a copy of a French original from 1710.
M
parkerharps 3 years ago
very nice!
me i ask who made this harp?
thanks
Gealach74 3 years ago 3