The modern concert pedal harp is very different to the stringed instrument used to accompany Irish folk music, or the first versions of it found in 2500 BC. It is more powerful and richer in tone, ...

Even more remarkably, the instrument she plays this day ... about a classified advertisement offering an Irish harp for sale. But the asking price was more than she could afford: $500.

The historical Irish harp, also known as Cláirseach or Early Gaelic harp, is simultaneously one of the world’s most famous and least known musical instruments. We see it on various romanticised “Irish ...