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Somerset Harp Festival 2024

July 12, 2024
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Dusty

Somerset Harp Festival, here we come! Our seventeen (!) show harps have been tuned, packed, and shipped on two pallets from Seattle, WA to Parsippany, NJ, and we'll be getting on a plane ourselves next week. We can't claim to be excited about New Jersey late July weather, but we are really looking forward to watching people fall in love with harps, answering questions about what we do, hearing the amazing presenters, listening to the harp tastings, and connecting with friends and colleagues we only see once a year.

We'll have an assortment of harps in different sizes, price ranges, and wood choices, including two of our newest model: the lightweight, 34-string FH34S. Or perhaps we can interest you in a stunning FH36S in rare, highly figured bubinga, a Serrana with a pickup in it, a double-strung FH26, our carbon fiber flight case for harps, or String Buttons you can try out if you'd like to get away from tying harper's knots. The festival runs July 18th-21st, and the exhibit hall is open the 19th-21st.

If you're not participating in the festival and the workshops but you live driving distance from Parsippany, this is a great opportunity for harp comparisons that is difficult to find anywhere else! You can purchase a $10 day pass to the exhibit hall,  where you can try harps by a variety of different makers, talk to the makers themselves in many cases, and also attend the harp tastings to hear different makes and models of harp demonstrated by professional players. It's rare to find so many harps under one roof, and it's one of the highlights of the festival.

Here's the full list of harps we're bringing:

  • FH36S in rare, highly figured bubinga with Camac levers and a pickup
  • FH36S in figured cherry with Camac levers
  • FH34S in figured cherry with Camac levers and a pickup
  • FH34S in walnut with Camac levers
  • FH36H n walnut with Camac levers
  • FH34 in figured cherry with Camac levers
  • FH26 double-strung in maple with Loveland levers and a pickup
  • FH26 in walnut with Loveland levers
  • Crescendo 34 with Loveland levers
  • Allegro 26 with Loveland levers
  • Serrana 34 with Loveland levers and a pickup
  • Boulevard 34 with Camac levers
  • Ravenna 34 in natural/black with Camac levers
  • Ravenna 34 in green with Camac levers
  • Ravenna 34 in black with Loveland levers
  • Ravenna 26 in natural/black with Loveland levers
  • Ravenna 26 in black with Loveland levers

We hope to see you there!

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