Links
Below are links to some of the musicians who play my instruments, some of instrument makers with whom I have worked, and a few other sites that I like and wish to share. Please let me know if you have one of my instruments and would like to be added to this page.
External links (in no particular order):
Tim Hobrough (sculpture pages) - Tim has retired from harp making. Until 2014 he supervised the Fordyce Joiner’s Workshop in Scotland. He is now living in Canada and directing his creativity into making wood and stone sculpture.
Richard York - Richard York, musician and teacher has a website full of interesting bits of stuff. I made at least one of his instruments while working for Tim and later did some carving on a harp he had made by Ardival Harps.
Ardival Harps - Ardival Harps is run by a lovely bunch of folks in Strathpeffer Scotland. Many of the carvings in my low-relief gallery were made for Ardival Harps while I was still living in the UK.
Kai Toenjes and Claire Dugue - Kai, who makes mandolin-family instruments, and Claire, who makes hurdy gurdies, and are friends from college. The first two heads I carved were both fool’s heads for Kai. The fool shown in my the ‘carved heads’ gallery, is the second of those.
Normal Myall - One of my teachers in London, Norman makes baroque instruments. In my picture gallery, the male viola da gamba head with the moustache in my picture gallery was carved for one of Norman’s bass viols.
George Stevens - George has been making fine lutes, gitterns and harps since we were students together at college in London. The carved lion’s heads, shown in my ‘carved heads’ gallery, are two that I carved for George’s gitterns.
Mike Parker - www.parkerharps.com
Here are two youtube clips taken from a concert that Mike
gave at the Isle of Wight Quay Arts Centre June 2008.
Ja nun hons pris is attributed to the late 12th-century Blondel
de Nesle and Richard Coer de Lyon.
Toda a questa is a 13th C pilgrim's hymn.
The instrument that Mike is playing is my 1996 prototype
for the ‘Mathilde’ model, strung with nylon strings.
Ja nun hons pris Toda a questa
Dufay Collective - www.dufay.com
This youtube clip is taken from the Dufay Collective’s 2005 concert at the South Bank Early Music Festival in London.
The harp that Peter Skuse is playing here is a late 1990’s version of the my 'Etienne' model. I believe it was strung with synthetic (PVF) strings.
Leah Stuttard - http://leahstuttard.co.uk/
Leah has been playing one of my ‘Mathilde’ harps since the late 1990’s. She is widely known for her solo work as well as with groups such as Ensemble Micrologus (www.micrologus.it).
Leah now has two of my ‘Mathilde’ model. While she was studying in Basel, she began using a hexachordal tuning but this is not the only tuning that she uses. In Nov. 2010 she purchased another Mathilde so that she could have the convenience of keeping each in a different tuning. I believe both of these recordings are on her original Mathilde, strung in nylon.
(Please click on the title above to open the link to Leah’s ‘soundcloud’ webpage.)
Catherine Groom - www.catherine-groom.co.uk
Catherine Groom of the duo Flos Harmonicus has a more recently-made walnut-stained, nylon-strung Mathilde. Her website has some pictures and audioclips.
(Please click on the title above to link to the MP3 on Catherine’s webpage. The file sometimes loads slowly.)