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Author Topic: cheap AS Harps on E bay  (Read 485 times)

peter horn

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cheap AS Harps on E bay
« on: April 27, 2012, 11:30:36 AM »
Handmade harps imported to Britain are cheap, but quality has been queried.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Rosewood-Handmade-Anglo-Saxon-Lyre

or google "New rosewood Anglo-Saxon harps ebay"
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Re: cheap AS Harps on E bay
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2012, 01:50:24 PM »
I've always wanted one of these but the prices are steep.

I clicked on the link and it seems the item has already gone.


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Re: cheap AS Harps on E bay
« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2012, 04:50:51 PM »
I found a page where they reckoned still to have 5 left.

Sounds like a fun thing to do. I don't know if this has been posted before, the Georgslied in old high german with german translation:

http://www.dimused.uni-tuebingen.de/ensemble/leier_ensemble.php

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Re: cheap AS Harps on E bay
« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2012, 06:32:33 PM »
I found a page where they reckoned still to have 5 left.

Sounds like a fun thing to do. I don't know if this has been posted before, the Georgslied in old high german with german translation:

http://www.dimused.uni-tuebingen.de/ensemble/leier_ensemble.php

The chap playing the hearpe is strangely limited to repeating the same musical phrase over and over again. He need s to develope his technique.
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