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Glass Harp
Glass Harp being played in Alexandria VA
Length: 126
Rating: 4.90 (812 ratings)
Tags: music glass harp
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La Partida - played on Paraguayan harp
Well - actually it's called "Quiero ser tu sombra" (wanna be your shadow), apparently by Hector Quattromanos and Zulema Alcayaga. I first heard this piece on the web, and learned it from there, complete with the wrong title! Anyway, apologies to Hector and Zulema! It's such a great piece - I love the slinkiness of it (if that's not a word, it is now). The Paraguayan harp is amazing - the sound on this recording is just noise-reduced, no other audio treatment - you can hear the sparkly treble and deep bass. The harp has guitar-type tuners (machine heads) which can be a bit fiddly near the middle of the harp, where it curves inwards. You hardly have to touch the strings to make it work - and when you play loud, the strings have the characteristic "twang" which you can use for special effects. I bought it at the Stamford Harp Festival and there's a rolled-up banknote in the end of the harp at the top - I can't get it out so who knows what it's worth! Apparently people would put banknotes in between the strings or into the top, as a tip. If you're a harpist, you might spot that the strings don't follow the conventional colours because Paraguayan harps have the C string in blue, and the F string in red, the reverse of other harps.
I'm playing it in my annex, which was a bakery serving the local houses, built around 1790 - that's the bread oven in the stone wall behind me. This is another of my late-night recordings, and it's the first complete take - so there's the odd rough bit.
The arrangement and video is my copyright. You are welcome to learn and play the arrangement if you like it - but please credit me if you play it in public. If you like it, I'll post more music.
The video was recorded using a 3-CCD camera direct to hard disk, and I used Cool Edit Pro to noise reduce the audio and Adobe Premiere Pro for picture correction. If you want a higher-quality file to download and put on your computer, leave me a message and I'll send you the link.
Length: 206
Rating: 4.80 (330 ratings)
Tags: Partida Venezuela Venezuelan Paraguayan Harp Music
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Carolan's Dream - played on celtic harp
Turlough O'Carolan was an irish harpist who lived in the mid-1600s and wrote pieces for the people he met and stayed with - playing music in exchange for hospitality. Tradition has it that the harp was played last thing at night, before people went to bed.
The building I'm playing it in was a bakery built around 1790, serving the local houses. The bread oven is in the stone wall behind me, and the building has a new floor and triple-glazing on the windows. It's a great mixture of old and new and a great place to play this music.
Appropriately, I recorded this piece very late one night, and just went with the first take so the playing has the odd rough bits. I like to think that's authentic - apparently Carolan never played the same way twice. Bet he never had as much trouble as I did finding DivX codecs, either!
Only the melodies survive, so I've done this arrangement myself and I'm playing it here on a Pilgrim gut-strung harp. The arrangement and video is my copyright. You are welcome to learn and play the arrangement (by ear - I haven't written it down!) if you like it - but please credit me if you play it in public. If you like it, I'll post more music.
To make the recording I used a Sony 3-CCD camera direct to hard disk, with one audio take, noise-reduced in Cool Edit Pro, with Adobe Premiere Pro to edit the visuals together. If you want a higher-quality file to download and keep on your computer, just send me a message.
Length: 242
Rating: 4.90 (797 ratings)
Tags: Irish Clarsach Music Celtic Harp O'Carolan Carolan
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Harp - Showspot - Louise Thomson
Harp Showspot / Entertainment played by Louise Thomson on an Aoyama Monarch Pedal Harp.
Sunday 9th October 2005 was the Final Round of the 2005 London Harp Competition held at the The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, organised by Clive Morley Harps.
Length: 297
Rating: 4.80 (482 ratings)
Tags: Harp Showspot Morley Thomson
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Harp Pachelbel Canon in D
Pachelbel Canon in D, arranged for harp by Sylvia Woods.
I'm sorry for the lousy sound. I don't have anything else right now than a webcam to record videos and music. I use quite dramatic dynamic changes, but it is almost unhearable when recorded with a webcam.
Pachelbel Canon is one of my most favorite pieces to play since I was introduced to it a few years ago by my teacher.
14-06-2007
Thanks for all the lovely comments. While I'm going through some tough times, these comments put a smile on my face every day. I can't thank you all individually, so: many thanks to you all! And don't hesitate to send me your videos.
Length: 241
Rating: 4.80 (1362 ratings)
Tags: harp pachelbel sylvia woods
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Stiff Little Fingers - "Harp" Taang! Records
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Length: 224
Rating: 4.90 (21 ratings)
Tags: Ireland streetpunk punk rock indie music_video music video stiff little fingers harp BlankTV
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Laser Harp Fully Functional
http://www.stephenhobley.com/build
Now you can build your own laser harp:
http://www.stephenhobley.com/store
Finally got the bugs worked out with the sensor. The harp is driven by an Arduino (Boarduino varation) and connected to the impOSCar VSTi software synthesizer, the TAOS sensor array sits on the floor in it's own stand. The array above the harp i is just made up of fs mirrors for added p'zazz.
Complete plans, schematics and source code will be available soon on my website.
The harp does respond to hand distance from the sensor, but that can sometimes go awry - so I switched it off for the demo.
Length: 58
Rating: 4.70 (276 ratings)
Tags: Laser Harp Jarre Scanner Arduino
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Statesboro Blues*Willie McTell*Blue Riders*gtr harp drums
The Blue Riders:
Ben Andrews guitars
Tim Jarvis drums and percussion
Hugh Feeley harmonicas
The 71 other session youtube clips are at...
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tymjar&search=Search
or just say hi, at:
http://www.myspace.com/timothyjarvis
"For over 20 years Ben has been playing the clubs & festivals along the Eastern seaboard of the USA. His picking on a variety of guitars ~ 12 string, Dobro, 6 string ~ is awesome!! He always gives a passionate display of virtuoso playing, whether it is the ragtime styles of Blind Blake or Willie McTell, the powerful driving rhythms of Huddie Ledbetter or the delicate slide of Mississippi John Hurt he just oozes authenticity. His rich voice perfectly compliments his playing. It is rare to get a combination of superb guitar, stunning vocals & natural swing but with Ben Andrews you get just that Ben also provides music scores for film, TV & radio. He has appeared at major festivals throughout the USA & Europe & has performed with many of the legends of blues including: - Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Brownie McGhee, John Hammond Jnr. and Robert Lockwood Jnr."
From: www.bluefrontbluesroom.org/Artist%20biogs%
I guess that in the early 1970s there was no Blind Willie McTell estate for the Allman Brothers to have payed copyrights to anyway...somebody was singin' the blues.
This song swung hard; bouncing along, playing the drums with the brushsticks was a ball. If you like this, check out Ben Andrews Blue Rider Trio doing some Robert Johnson / Kokomo Arnold, Mississippi John Hurt, Brownie McGhee, Howlin' Wolf , Thomas A. Dorsey, Rev. Gary Davis, etc.
If you like any of the harmonica or greats of country / folk blues artists, whether Mississippi Delta , Ragtime or Piedmont fingerstyle acoustic guitar: Henry "Mule" Townsend, Dr. Ross, Ramblin' Thomas, Sam Chatmon , Tampa Red, Scrapper Blackwell, Willie Doss, Doc Reese, Memphis Minnie, Tampa Red, Earl Hooker, Etta Baker, Elizabeth Cotten, Jesse Fuller, Son House. If you like any of the country folk blues artists, whether Mississippi delta , or just fingerstyle acoustic guitar ... please give this a listen:
Mr. McTell´s music encompasses ¨Eastern Seaboard/Piedmont, with lighter, bouncier rhythms and a ragtime influence; and Deep South, with its greater emphasis on intense rhythms and short, repeated music phrases¨
A little history of the Virginia, Piedmont style:
"In the mid-1920s, a form of guitar music evolved from African-American culture that echoed the soul and personality of African-American life. The style evolved from "rags," played with banjos, fiddles and percussion. As the guitar replaced the banjo as the lead instrument and songs were picked from the strings rather than strummed, an energetic voice emerged that began to sweep through the Southeast, and it was called Carolina blues, or Piedmont blues. Piedmont blues differed from the tradition blues that lulled a sad, longing story and picked up the pace, peppy enough for people to dance to it. The sound, because it was played with guitar and After World War II, the electric guitar began to replace the acoustic guitar, and the blues picked up an influence from the 1950 rock 'n roll."
Alan Lomax , George Higgs and more at
http://www.unctv.org/webcast/music/fw_piedmont_blues.html
A world of thanks to a MAJOR inspiration of mine...David "Panama" Francis. I think Phish/Greatful Dead, Taj Mahal and Keb Mo listener might give this clip a listen.
Cheers to THE 100 CLUB, London.
Thanks to Thomson, Georgia for the Annual Blind Willie McTell Blues Festival and Bob Dylan, who memorialized him in a song.
Blue Riders acoustic blues trio recorded in 1995
Here´s a doff of the hat to Warner Williams and Jay Summerour
The Blue Riders recorded in Virginia, U.S.A., in 1995
- tymjar
Length: 379
Rating: 4.60 (7 ratings)
Tags: Allman Brothers guitar harmonica etta baker fingerstyle thumbstyle Doctor Ross Ramblin' Thomas Peetie Wheatstraw keb mo
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