Re: [Harp-L] Loud Harps for Street

["Bill" <bill.eborn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There's a guy from the North east of England (sorry his name escapes me for 
the moment) who plays traditional Northumbrian music on tremolo harps with a 
beer can attached to the back as a resonance chamber.  It struck me as a 
very good way of potentially slicing a finger but it could be worth a try.


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From: "Aongus MacCana" <amaccana@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [Harp-L] Loud Harps for Street


> The loudest harp I have heard so far is Rick Eppings "Bunker Buster" (my
> name - not his!)
> This instrument is a sort of 'Hot Rod Harp' built on a Hohner Chromatic
> 'Chassis' with octave tuning (two reeds per hole).
> In the top few holes where it is not really feasible to incorporate two
> reeds an octave apart Rick used 'unison' - two reeds the same size. In an
> Irish trad situation where amps are strictly a no!no! this weapon can even
> put manners on the banjos.
> Rick has I think two of these harps, but strictly for his own amusement. I
> don't think he has any plans to market them as the amount of time and work
> involved in making them would render the cost prohibitive. "Don't try to 
> do
> this at home kids" unless you are a master craftsman like Rick.
> Rick thinks that Seydel may have produced something similar,(a blues harp
> based on chromatic innards) but with tremolo tuning. I have been meaning 
> to
> contact Seydel to see if they do indeed make such an instrument and if so
> whether they could be persuaded to supply it in octave tuning.
> Beannachtai
> Aongus Mac Cana
>
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