clarsach

The Clarsach is a performance harp which really comes into its own when playing with one of more other instruments.

She plays, teaches and lectures on the small Scottish harp also known as the clarsach.

Many people do not realise that the clarsach is Scotland's oldest instrument and was around 500 years before bagpipes were used.

Perhaps at the spotlit harpist plucking a golden clarsach in the corner?

The musicians were many, and they had crude instruments, nothing as beautiful as the bagpipes or the clarsach.

The 1931 formation of the Clarsach Society kickstarted the modern harp renaissance.

Bardic verses traditionally celebrated the clarsach harp and made no mention of bagpipes.

Dancing, piping, fiddling, and playing the clarsach (Gaelic harp).

Some Clarsach players also sing. Limited (Scottish) repertoire.

It is similar in construction and design to the Queen Mary Clarsach in Scotland.

She learnt the clarsach ( the Celtic harp) outwith school and soon became known for her singing and playing.

This label was not interested in recording the clarsach player Alison Kinnaird, as they did not think the record would sell.

Choral events and traditional music including Gaelic song, fiddle, bagpipe, clarsach and folk groups dominate.

Two of them had the immense privilege of tuition in the stunningly beautiful instrument that is the Scottish harp (clarsach).

Commun na Clàrsaich (the Clarsach Society) deposited its records.

The chithara is probably the clarsach or Celtic harp and the typanum probably a string instrument rather than a form of drum.

The clarsach Ceòl Mór is likely to have predated and influenced the later pipe and fiddle music.

Instrumental Tuition Lessons are available on all orchestral instruments and on guitar, saxophone and clarsach.

The title page version shows a seated Coila holding a scroll of music sitting opposite Ossian who is holding a clarsach.

Storytelling is by Lizzie MacDougall, accompanied by her daughter Siannie on the clarsach.

The wire-strung clarsach harp was traditionally the primary high status aristocratic instrument in Gaelic Scotland and Ireland.

David Paton's clarsach added an air of authenticity to the proceedings with a great variety of moods and sounds, setting an evocative tone for each scene.

Billy Jackson's wire-strung harp, the clarsach, featured in most pieces but he also played Uilleann (Irish) pipes and whistles.

Voice and Clarsach Comunn na Clarsaich, Edinburgh Branch, Trophy - 1.

This model takes the acoustic development refined in the 34 string Clarsach a stage further, to produce a range and quality of sound associated with instruments much larger then itself.