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hey there, janet harbinson used to live in belfast, she's in limerick now, so that's ripped the bottom out of harping in belfast a bit. she'd still be your best bet though for knowing who in belfast would be selling harps or teaching. address is www.irishharpcentre.com. What sort of money are you pr...

i'm trying to hint at an F and a G low whistle and a few CDs for Christmas. probably mikie's and mick o brien and kevin o reilly's CD. mmm

ah amar, there was no need for that!!! i think i probably should've had a smaller harp and stool or something, the harp's bloody bigger than me!!

started playing music when i was 3, started the harp when i was 7. the link to the celtic harp cd has a link in it of the Chieftains playing with the Belfast Harp Orchestra - i think that's carnegie concert. i'm the tiny little dude hunched over the harp in the front right!!!! i was just very lucky ...

uilleann pipes
harp
fiddle
low whistle
whistle!!
banjo (ish)
piano (ish)
flute (lungs tend to collapse after a set)
wavin pipe

yeah, he's due back in the next couple of weeks i think. he's long finished his degree but is doing a masters in limerick this year.

there's a nice session in smith's in ranelagh on a wednesday night. kieran hanrahan and such play there. i lived in dublin for 3 years and used to go occassionally. id stay its still going but maybe check out first before going out there.

Everyone's referring to them as albums 1 - 11. Which number was The Celtic Harp album? It won a grammy. I'm on there as a 10 year old member of the Belfast Harp Orchestra. Good times.

its a recording from 1990 or 1991, I'll check the name of it for you this evening. Barr na Cuille , probably. I had forgotten that he plays most of that album on a Froment B set on that album. The rest of the album (4 tracks I believe) is played on his Mulchrone C# set. Bill yeah, thats the one. gr...

woops, i'm not very good at this quoting business.....

billh wrote:

Robbie's in B all right, but Neili usually plays in C#. What recording are you talking about?

its a recording from 1990 or 1991, I'll check the name of it for you this evening.

Hi Big Time Why not ask Seth to make the drones so that you can tune them to both B and C then you can get both chanters and have a full set in one key and an effective half set in the other. David Already done. Seth reckons its probably possible, but wonders whether the bass drone will be equally ...

Richard Murray from here in Galway is getting a flat set from Seth soon - can't remember what key, so that'll be a good indicator, well probably a deciding factor of what I'll do. I suppose my personal problem is that I'm a very impatient person and hate the idea of waiting a number of years for an ...

could be a pick up?

nothing happened b or Csharp either.

yeah, throw b into the mix, but i don't think I'd get C sharp.