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Helen Forder
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Harp ...continued |
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Inventory. 7th
April 1637.
David
Pritchard, Vicar of St. Donat's.
Harp
Pair of playing tables
His books
Total Goods and Chattels
From Glamorgan Gaol Files
1703.
Evan Williams of Pentyrch was charged for playing
the harp in Llanilltern Churchyard on a Sunday.
I am grateful to Nigel Williams for these two
snippets.
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value
value
value
value |
£ 2
£15. |
3s.
3s.
9s. |
6d. |
Triple
Harp
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The 1834
map of Brecon shows a harp shaped area marked as 'Corporation
- Harp Close', near Captain's Walk.
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The marine
boating lake at Cold Knap, Barry, South Wales was
built about 1920, in the shape of a Welsh Harp.
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Lady Llanofer and the
Triple Harp
'... And the Bee [Lady Llanofer] had,
above all, doted utterly, of course, on the
triple harp, on folk songs, and on dancing, Welsh
folk dancing, and there is no doubt at all that
the Abergavenny Eisteddfodau, between 1835 and
1853 had played a very important part in
safeguarding those elements in Welsh culture. It
is certain that the triple harp would have
completely disappeared from the land were it not
for Gwenynen Gwent who emplyed a harper in
cardiff, Bassett Jones, to make harps. That is,
she put competitions in the eisteddfodau for
players of the triple harp and instead of money
being given to them as prizes, gave new harps to
them. And it is likely that this Bassett Jones in
Cardiff fashioned somewhere around three dozen
brand new harps, and those went out to the
country. And Gwenynen Gwent continued very, very
fervently for that which she considered
traditional culture of the Welsh, right up to the
year of her death in 1896, 'a very fiery
Welshwoman', said one of her acquaintances. But
in truth, as to her lineage, she was English.
Thank God for those of that nature.'
From an
article found on the internet
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