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A harp guitar must have at least one unfretted string lying off the main fretboard, typically played as an open string. This family consists of many varieties of instrument configurations. Most readily identified are American harp guitars with either hollow arms, double necks or harp-like frames for supporting extra bass strings, and European ...
Doan's latest video project is a 90-minute documentary that he wrote and starred in titled In Search of the Harp Guitar. John hosted an International Harp Guitar Festival at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. [9] Doan was recently awarded "World's Leading Harp Guitarist" by the Brand Laureate Awards.
The World Harp Competition finals (and since 2024 the semifinals) also take place alongside the Dutch Harp Festival. The next Dutch Harp Festival is scheduled to take place on Saturday, 18 April 2026 at TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands. In June 2024 the Utrecht festival subsidy committee advised the municipality to terminate the multi ...
Elizabeth Jaxon is the director for the World Harp Competition. She is also one of the board member for the Dutch Harp Festival along with Remy van Kesteren, Gert Wijnalda and Paul Hooijmans. [7] Volunteers help to make the event possible by supporting as guides, harp movers, drivers, and roles in the restaurant, ticketing desk and information ...
Today he plays custom-made guitars by Marc Beneteau, a Canadian luthier from St. Thomas, Ontario. The Beneteaus are equipped with a combination of microphone and K&K pickups. Occasionally he plays a baritone guitar and a harp guitar by Marc Beneteau, or uses a custom 7-string by Oskar Graf, a luthier from Clarendon, Ontario.
[5] [6] [7] In October 2013, Henson-Conant performed and represented the United States at the 7th annual World Harp Festival, in Asunción, Paraguay. As you know, a lot of my music is compositional, and there's a lot of arpeggiated guitar parts. They work really well on the harp, especially since it's an electric harp and you can process it.
Martin again appeared with Glass Harp at the same festival in 2006. [24] Glass Harp's original Decca studio albums were re-issued on CD in 2005 by Music Mill Entertainment (having first been released on CD in 1993 by Line Records in Germany before quickly going out of print). These releases were remastered with bonus tracks and updated liner notes.
In 1960 an 80-year-old neighbor gave her an old harp-zither. Her husband repaired it and customized it, and Margaret became its only living performer. An instrument manufacturer was impressed and obtained permission to manufacture copies of it, calling it the MacArthur Harp. [3] In 1962 she signed to Folkways Records at the insistence of Pete ...