Would you enjoy making your own musical instrument and experience the pride of building your own harp? With Geoff Welham's expert guidance you will be able to build and finish a high quality harp from a pre-prepared kit in less than a week.
Geoff's harp-making Workshops are held at his workshop at Copmanhurst
near Grafton in Northern New South Wales Australia. Three kinds of harp
can be made in these workshops. As a bonus you can also enjoy the beautiful Clarence Valley coutryside while you build your harp. Absolutely wonderful home-cooked meals and accommodation are also available
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26 String harp 5 day workshop |
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26 string lap harp (plywood soundboard)
solid wood version shown
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26 string Celtic Lap harp
Featuring divided neck and guitar style tuners for easy and precise stable tuning
This harp has a well balanced sound and medium string tension and medium string spacing; an ideal
small portable harp with a beautiful sound.
FEATURES:
*Height: 1000 mm
*Width: 570 mm
*Weight: 4.5Kg
* Range: 3 1/2 octaves
*low string C 1-1/2 octaves below mid C
*Includes Asymmetrical neck for levers
*comes with standard welharp levers on C, F and B strings
plywood, spruce or King William pine sound board
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quality solid wood soundboard,
welharp levers solid wood pillar, decorative timber |
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| 31 string Harp 5 day workshop |
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31 string floor harp(plywood sound board & pillar ) (solid wood version shown )
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31 string Celtic harp
31 String Celtic Floor Harp with legs Available with plywood, Spruce, or KW pine soundboard
Featuring divided neck and guitar style tuners for easy and precise stable
tuning
Free standing
This harp has a well balanced sound and medium
string tension and medium string spacing.
Height 1450 mm
Width 640 mm
Weight 8-10Kg
low string F 1½ octaves below mid c
Range 4¼octaves
Includes
Asymmetrical neck for levers
levers standard on CF & B
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quality solid wood soundboard, welharp levers, solid wood pillar, decorative timber |
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| 36 String Harps 6 day workshop |
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Note this is a special workshop where we only make the 36 string harp
36 String high quality Round-back Harp (6 days)
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36 string Celtic harp
This new 36 string harp is a tall graceful harp in the style of the Celtic folk harps.
It is 1.55 meters high and has a round back and curved pillar and sits on an
attractive base which has four turned feet.
The range is from A 2 1/2 octaves below
middle C up to A 2 1/2 octaves above middle C.
The bass is full and warm, the
mid-range is round and sweet, and the treble range sparkles. The six lower bass strings
can be either wound metal or nylon/nylon wrap. The metal bass strings give a bit more
bite and more sustain.
In common with other Welharps harps it has the
split/divided Paraguayan style neck with guitar machine heads.
This wonderful
harp is designed to be fitted with Cemac levers a $27.50 each.
Standard
price DOES NOT include levers
Round back and neck; (laminated hoop pine
marine ply with red cedar or mahoganny ourter veneer.)
Pillar: solid red cedar
Sound board: King william pine
Height: 1.55 m
width :0.82m
weight: 11kg
(with levers on half of the strings)
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welharp or camac levers, solid wood pillar, decorative timber |
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| Home-cooked meals and Accommodation |
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Delicious home cooked meals (breakfast lunch dinner)
Accommodation: In-house or camping
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* Prices may vary slightly from these amounts. Please contact
Geoff for current prices
The deposit is payable one month before the workshop and
is non-refundable. The balance is payable at the commencement of the
workshop. Absolutely wonderful home-cooked meals and accommodation are available price on
application.
Phone 02 66 494960 or email Geoff to
obtain your workshop information pack.
The workshop fee includes everything necessary to
produce a fully finished and functional playing musical instrument.
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