Early Gaelic Harp Info: the Leipzig harp

instruments:

old harps: replicas: stringing:

Trinity College, Lamont, Queen Mary, Ballinderry, Cloyne, Otway, O'Fogarty, Kildare, Sirr, Mullagh Mast, Rose Mooney, O'Neill, Downhill, Bunworth, Hollybrook, Malahide 1, Malahide 2, Clonalis, Others, Foreign

Foreign harps

Wartburg, Rome, Nuremberg, Leipzig, Hofburg, Bologna 2, Estense, NMM, Kaiser, Barberini, Bologna 3, Boston, Sondershausen, Eisenach, Augsburg, Rabe

The Leipzig harp

harp

Not to scale

Dated to the 16th century

Kept at the Museum für Musikinstrumente, Leipzig, Germany

"Gothic" design;
23 strings, no dimensions available.

This instrument, approximately contemporary with the Otway harp, is of the typical Continental 'Gothic' form with gut strings and buzzing bray pins. There is a good photograph and description in German on the Museum website.

Simon Chadwick