Published on September 4th, 2009 by Malachi
The three long poems in the collection, “The Roots of Music”, (–in the original Irish Gaelic with my facing page calligraphed translations–) give a wonderful insight into the special regard that Ireland had for the harp.
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In Ireland they had a saying:
“Caid cac ceol co cruit” –itself a marvel of compression– which translates to:
“All music is [...]
Published on May 29th, 2009 by Malachi
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An early customer of mine for “The Roots of Music” was the harp-enthusiast and knowledgeable Simon Chadwick. He was then at Cambridge Univ. (or was it Oxford? I have to look it up.)
He had a newsletter dealing with the harp, and especially the Gaelic Harp, which is his specialization. [...]
Published on May 29th, 2009 by Malachi
I put out this handmade collection about ten years ago. The Harp –and especially The Irish Harp– was being talked about a lot, and a lot of people were becoming interested in picking it up and learning to play it.
Many of those folks knew little about the Irish Harp, [...]
