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Historical Harp Society

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Links to Members, Historical Harp Builders & Vendors, & Study Programs
What are historical harps?
  About historical harp research
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The Historical Harp Directory

 

HHS Members' Sites and Contact Information
Criteria:            1. The site is registered to a member of HHS in good standing.
  2. The site contains a link to the index or home page of this HHS site. 
(HHS members with no web site are entitled to a listing with no URL, by request to membership chair .)
  3. Members are listed only with their consent and express application to the membership chair.

Historical Harp Builders
Criterion:        Known builders of quality replications of historical models and imaginative reconstructions will be chosen by the editors, with recommendations from teaching faculty.  A return link is preferred but not required.  Applications will be accepted based upon merit.

Other Historical Harp Vendors
Criterion:        Providers of quality replications of historical harps will be chosen by the editors, with recommendations from teaching faculty.  A return link is strongly preferred.  Applications will be accepted based upon merit.

Historical Harp Societies around the world
Criterion:      Societies with aims and purposes similar to our own, with various foci.

Historical Harp Study Programs
   (for music festivals and other short intensive programs, visit "other events.")

Criterion:        Programs of study of historical harp literature and music will be chosen by the editors, with recommendations from teaching faculty.  A return link is preferred but not required.  Both summer or seasonal institutes or workshops and permanent  degree programs may be listed.  We make no pretense to completeness.  Applications will be accepted based upon merit.

Miscellaneous Links
Criterion:        Does not fit in above, but provides useful information for historical harp research.

This page is provided for your convenience.  Listing on this page does not imply or confer general approval or recommendation of the Historical Harp Society, its members, or its officers.

To submit a request that a link be included on this page, please e-mail to the website editor, Cheryl von der Heyde, at
cpfeil@nomadharp.com  the web page title and URL.   Requests to link to a site that does not fit into one of these four categories will be considered on their merits.  Generally a return link to the HHS site is required.

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HHS Members' Sites:
Name / Address / URL / E-mail links:
Telephone:



David Christian Nelson 616 McIntyre Lane, Maumee, OH 43537-2425   U.S.A.
www.davidchristiannelson.com    david@davidchristiannelson.com
419-893-7166
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                  who will arrange promptly for you to be listed here.

Historical Harp Builders:
Name / Address / URL / E-mail links: Telephone: / Description:
Early MusiChicago   http://earlymusichicago.org/businesses_harp.htm
directory of harp makers, U. S. and Europe
Early Music America   http://www.earlymusic.org/Content/Resources/InstrumentBuilders.htm
builders and repairs directory
The Harp Mall   http://www.harpmall.com/antique_&_museum_quality_harps.htm
antique models, several builders and dealers
Ardival Harps  Scotland  http://www.ardival.com/

Catherine Campbell
 WA, U.S.A. http://www.CampbellHarps.com   billcamp@olypen.com

Lynne Lewandowski  VT, U.S.A.  http://www.sover.net/~lynneski/

Magus Harps  Germany    http://www.magus-harps.de/HarpsHist.html

Muma Harps
 ON, Canada    http://www.mumaharps.com/harps/xharp/moreback.html
This site has historical commentary.
George Stevens  Kent, England    http://www.btinternet.com/~george.stevens

Thurau Harps  Germany    http://www.thurau-harps.com/

Witcher Harps  NY, U.S.A    http://www.harpanddragon.com/witcher.htm

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Other Historical Harp Vendors:
Name / Address / URL / E-mail links: Telephone: / Description:
Mike Nielsen's harplust page:
This long list contains all kinds of harps.
  http://www.weddingharper.com/harplust.html

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Historical Harp Societies:
Name / Address / URL / E-mail links: Telephone: / Description:
Harp Spectrum
  http://www.harpspectrum.org/historical/historical.shtml

The International Historical Harp Society   http://www.inthistoricalharps.org/

The Historical Harp Society of Ireland
  http://www.irishharp.org/

The Clarsach Society
  http://www.clarsachsociety.co.uk/
   and for wire harps: http://spanglefish.com/Clarsach/

The Scottish Harp Society of America
  http://www.shsa.org/




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Historical Harp Study Programs:
Name / Address / URL / E-mail links: Telephone: / Description:
Eastman School of Music  Rochester, NY  http://www.rochester.edu/Eastman/
585-274-1000 / M.A., Ph.D.
Sorbonne University  Paris, FRANCE            (Link contains _ _ ,  no spaces!)
http://www.paris-sorbonne.fr/fr/IMG/pdf/Info_in_English.pdf
Benjamin Bagby teaches in this newly- created medieval music performance Masters program.



Miscellaneous Links:
Name / Address / URL / E-mail links: Brief description:
Simon Chadwick's harp links
  http://www.simonchadwick.net/
very early harp studies
Henry Hough's
 Frequesntly Asked Questions
  http://www.ceolas.org/instruments/Harp_FAQ
  source:  henry_hough@mit.edu
an old, but still useful, list of dealers and answers to other questions about historical harps
OK, I've been surfing too long, time to be apprehended by ... the Harp Police! ...
  M. N..  http://www.weddingharper.com/hpg.html
The Police were apprehended with an Error 404, by Godknowswhatmonster, but they've now been found again!!!.


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Editor (for ideas, submissions, questions about organization, etc.)
  
Cheryl Pfeil von der Heyde, cpfeil@nomadharp.com

Webmaster (to report broken links, other technical problems, etc.)
   David C. Nelson,
dchristiannelson@sbcglobal.net

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Web site content by Cheryl Pfeil von der Heyde
Designed by David Christian Nelson
 updated February 13, 2008