Resources

Book Audio Tracks

Here’s where you can listen to and/or download companion audio tracks for Cindy’s harp books (in MP3 format). A ZIP file is available for easy download of all the tracks at once, or you can access individual tracks in the book’s MP3s folder. Click on a title below to access tracks for your book:

• Make Mine a Double
• Double the Weddings (Double Dozen Series Book 1)
• Double the O’Carolan Tunes (Double Dozen Series Book 2)
• NEW! Double the Carols (Double Dozen Series Book 3)

Double-Strung Harp Luthiers

Some luthiers build double harps as part of their regular product line; others build doubles by special order only. Contact luthiers directly for availability.

• Argent Fox (Kirkwood IL, USA)
• Blevins Harps (Grand Junction CO, USA)
• Dusty Strings (Seattle WA, USA)
• Hayden Harps (Waterloo ON, Canada)
• Lewis Creek Harps (Chelsea MI, USA)
• Marini Made Harps (New Holland PA, USA)
• Mountain Glen Harps (Phoenix OR, USA)
• Rees Harps Inc. (Rising Sun IN, USA)
• Sligo Harps (Silver Spring MD, USA)
• Stoney End (Red Wing MN, USA)
• Waring Harps (Guilford VT, USA)

Double-Strung Harp Performers, Teachers, & Composer/Arrangers

• Cindy Shelhart
• Jesse Autumn
• Carolyn Deal
• Anne Crosby Gaudet
• Beth Kollé
• Jo Morrison
• Karen Peterson
• Laurie Riley
• Verlene Schermer

Double-Strung Harp on Social Media

• Follow Cindy on Facebook
• Follow Cindy on Instagram
• Subscribe to Cindy’s YouTube channel
• Join the Double Strung Harp Group [private group] on Facebook

Welsh Triple Harp & Music Resources

The Welsh triple harp is the direct ancestor of today’s double-strung harp.

• Welsh triple harp performers include Elinor Bennett, Robin Huw Bowen, Eleri Darkins, Cheryl Ann Fulton, and Llio Rhydderch.
• Welsh harp music & reference books can be found at Cerdd Ystwyth Music, Creighton’s Collection, Clive Morley Harps, and Harp.com.
• Welsh cultural links include The Wales Harp Festival, The Welsh Folk Dance Society, and The Welsh North American Association.

Selected Welsh Music & Reference Books

I used many of these collections and reference books in writing Make Mine a Double.

• The Bardic Museum (1802), Edward Jones 
• Blodau’r Grug: 100 o Alawon Dawnsio Poblogaidd Cymru [Flowers of the Heather: 100 Popular Welsh Folk Dance Tunes], Alex Hamilton and Robin Huw Bowen 
• Cadw Twmpath: 100 Arall o Alawon Dawnsio Gwerin Cymreig [Preserving the Barn Dance: 100 More Welsh Folk Dance Tunes], Robin Huw Bowen 
• Caneuon y Ddraig [Songs of the Dragon], The Welsh National Gymanfa Ganu Association [now The Welsh North American Association] 
• A Collection of Welsh, English and Scotch [sic] Airs with New Variations, Also Four New Lessons for the Harp composed by John Parry, to Which Are Added Twelve Airs for the Guittar [sic] (1761), John Parry (John Parry Ddall Rhiwabon) 
• The Harp in Wales, Bruce Cardwell 
• The Harpmakers of Wales, Mair Roberts 
• Manual or Method of Instruction for Playing the Welsh Harp (1902), Ellis Roberts (Eos Meirion) 
• Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards (1784), Edward Jones 
• The Story of the Harp in Wales, Osian Ellis 
• Welsh and English Hymns and Anthems, The Welsh National Gymanfa Ganu Association [now The Welsh North American Association] 
• The Welsh Harper (1839), John Parry (Bardd Alaw) 
• Y Delyn [The Harp], Ann Rosser 
• Y Delyn Deires: ymarferion i ddechreuwyr [The Welsh Triple Harp: Exercises for Beginners], Eleri Darkins 
• Y Delyn Yng Nghymru Mewn Lluniau [The Harp in Wales in Pictures], D. Roy Saer