Triple harp in Welsh sycamore
2024Welsh sycamore
Ninety-eight strings across three rows, the outer two tuned in unison with a chromatic row running between. Voiced warm and quick, for singing under the voice.
“Built for a cerdd dant accompanist.”
The Work
Instruments from the workshop.
A slow record of instruments built at the bench — some for professional players, some for private homes, all made one at a time.
Crwth after the 1742 Evans
2023maple & spruce
Careful copy of the Evans crwth held at St Fagans — six gut strings, four bowed and two drones, carved from a single block of maple with a spruce soundboard.
“A copy of the museum instrument.”
Cottage lever harp in cherry
2023cherry
Thirty-four strings, Camac levers, cherry throughout — a lighter instrument for a smaller room, but voiced with the same care as its taller cousins.
“A smaller harp for a cottage window.”
Each one, once
No two the same.
Every instrument on this page was made for one player and one room, and none of them will be made again. The timber differs, the hands that will play it differ, and so the voice differs each time. What you see here is not a catalogue to choose from but a record of what has already left the bench — a way of knowing the work by its results.
If one of them speaks to you, it is not that instrument you would be ordering, but its cousin: the same care, the same patience, the same Welsh wood, shaped freshly for you. That conversation begins with a telephone call.
Croeso — welcome