Långt Borta av Alban Faust - Sarah Berger and me

Another clip taken from our set at the open folk mic in Hamburg, one year ago. it's a beautiful piece by the Swedish musician and bagpipe maker Alban Faust.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Folk
• Ball
• Hamburg
• Fievklang
• Dudelsack
• Böhmische
• Hakenharfe
• Sackpfeife
• Cornemuse
• Bagpipe
• Schäferpfeife
• Harp
• Harfe

[trixxxmusic]

The harp maker is Pepe Weissgerber in Berlin. I met him with his harps in Rudolstadt at the Folk Festival. How long are you playing harp? And what music do you play?

[HaileISela]

@trixxxmusic well, to be honest, I'm the guy on the bagpipes...

[trixxxmusic]

How many strings does your harp have? Is it 36? I have a camac harp but thinking to get a böhmische Harfe from a Berlin harp maker.

[HaileISela]

@trixxxmusic though I do know the harp maker you're talking about, I don't know about the number of strings... I think it may be 36. you should get it, that maker is brilliant!

[Buahkernmehl]

@trixxxmusic 33 strings, bad enough to keep them tuned ;)

[OculusAquilae]

@trixxxmusic IIRC Sarah explained to me that this is a Klangwerkstatt harp made by herself at a workshop. According to the Klangwerkstatt website it should have 33 strings.

[trixxxmusic]

:) Ok. Still, its nice what you do.

[krabbers]

excellente

[mmbrown82]

That was very pretty. I'd love to be able to play the harp one day.

[casetone2514]

Lovely!

I only discovered last week what the coloured strings on a harp were for.