Ruth Faber Harp Courses:
Pilgrim Harps
Pilgrim
Harps are sponsoring the 2013 Teenage Harp Course Celebrity
Recital by Eleanor Turner.
Pilgrim
Harps: From the day
we founded Pilgrim
Harps in 1980, we
have been fortunate and privileged to be able to combine our
passion with our daily business. Our workshops, which are converted
from an old coach house, are situated in the heart of the beautiful Surrey countryside near
the village of South
Godstone. We
like to think that something of this environment finds its way
into the harps we make.
From the start we have
had two main aims: to make the harp more accessible to everyone,
and to create harps tailored to each individual’s
specific needs to
suit performer, teacher or student.
Pilgrim Harps’ blueprint for creating the very finest harps involves striving towards three fundamentals – flawless design, perfect materials and immaculate craftsmanship. We gain enormous satisfaction from producing handcrafted instruments using exceptional materials, and we continually search for and test out the slightest improvements that can be made.
Creating harps that look very beautiful is an integral part of our approach to harp making, but ultimately it is the harp's sound that is of paramount importance. The elements of sound that we pay special attention to are the richness and depth of tone; subtlety in dynamics and timbre; and clarity, projection and power. Before it is finished, each harp is tested out by one of our specialist harpists. They scrutinise every aspect of the harp’s performance, checking for accuracy of intonation and regulation.
