Tagelharpa Bastarda – Walnut Crow

€1.040,00

Tagelharpa Bastarda in Walnut wood
Tagelharpa – Bowed lyre

Tagelharpa with lower frequencies than a standard tagelharpa and higher than the Tagelharpa Cello; an instrument halfway between the two worlds. Entirely made of solid walnut, including accessories, it has a dark, hard sound, with gloomy tones and marked drones.

Description: for technical, construction features, to learn about the materials and the history of the lyra, continue reading below ↓ in Description sheet.

To order, for more information, to request audio files of the instrument, shipping cost estimates, waiting times or other requests, send us an email to: info@camillamargheritaferrari.it
All models can be made left-handed, if specified in the request email.

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The instruments are made to order but to limit waiting times as much as possible, we try to have at least one model of each type under construction, in a more or less advanced state. Waiting times can therefore vary, usually between 4 and 12 months depending on the state of the work, the finishing and the workload at the time of the order. The waiting time will be communicated in the response to the order (i.e. before confirming the order) or following your request by e-mail.

Since the instruments are handcrafted, the measures may slightly vary as well as the tones of color because of the different colors of wood, different from plant to plant, and the alteration due to photography and the type of display monitor.

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Description

Tagelharpa Bastarda in Walnut wood: Characteristics

Tagelharpa Bastarda in Walnut. The structure of the instrument, including the soundboard, is entirely made of solid walnut, as are the bridge, tailpiece and pegs, made one by one individually.

Finally, the lyre is finished with cooked linseed oil.

The strings are made of black horsehair, carefully selected, compounds in different number for melodic string, high drone (bordone alto) and low drone (bordone basso).

The bow is made of national walnut, with blond horsehair.

Tuning:

The strings of the Tagelharpa Bastarda can be tuned:

Melodic string: from F# (185 Hz) to A (220 Hz)
High Drone: F# (185 Hz) to A (220 Hz) (unison with the melodic string)
Low Drone: from C# (138 Hz) to E (164 Hz)

History

The Tagelharpa (also called Talharpa) is a bowed lyre orgined in northern Europe. It spread widely in Scandinavia after the Viking age and is still used in some of the northern territories (of particular importance the tradition of the Estonian islands). Its existence in medieval Scandinavia is witnessed by artistic and archaeological sources, such as the wall painting in Røldal (XII-XIII century) and the sculpture of Trondheim Cathedral (XIV century). Also widely spread its close Finnish relative, the Jouhikko.

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