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Gilded tuning key
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Gilded tuning key

24th July 2015 simonchadwick Leave a comment

I made this key yesterday, for a colleague who has been waiting too long for it! Continue reading Gilded tuning key →

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3D model of the harp

21st July 2015 simonchadwick Leave a comment

Here’s my latest attempt at 3D photography. It’s not very good but It was a first attempt! Continue reading 3D model of the harp →

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Firing the bells

3rd July 2015 simonchadwick Leave a comment

I have never done this, or seen it done, or even heard it done. But here is a video on Youtube showing the ringers at Blackburn firing! Thanks to the Ringing World letters page for this link! Continue reading Firing the bells →

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The Fairy Queen
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The Fairy Queen

1st July 2015 simonchadwick Leave a comment

As I have been practicing the Fairy Queen for tomorrow’s concert, and I have the Downhill harp here this week, I thought I would do a quick Youtube of it as a record of where I am at the moment.

Continue reading The Fairy Queen →

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...Agus air creachainn chéin fhàsmhor
chinn blàthmhor craobh nan teud,
‘na meangach duillich t‘aodann,
mo chiall is aogas reuil.

And on a distant, luxuriant summit there blossomed the Tree of Strings, among its leafy branches your face, my reason and the likeness of a star.

–Somhairle Mac Ghill Eathain, Dain Do Eimhir agus dain eile, William Maclellan & Co. Ltd., 1943

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