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Erard Harp with Original Wooden Shipping Case

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  • #71363
    unknown-user
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    Hi, I have aquired an Erard Harp. It is 70″ tall and has 47 strings. Also 7 foot pedals. Serial #2283. The strings are qiute loose. Beautiful Gesso. Also with the harp is the original shipping container. A work of art itself. Paper work in French inside. Does anyone have any info on this item. Year made, worth, were to sell?? Thank You, RAR.

    #71364
    carl-swanson
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    Where is the instrument now?

    #71365
    unknown-user
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    Hi Carl, Rhode Island. Rich

    #71366
    Tacye
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    Was it made by Erard Paris or London?

    #71367
    unknown-user
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    Made in Paris

    #71368

    The bidding starts at $3,000.

    #71369
    unknown-user
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    Item will be listed on ebay as soon as I found out some info. Thanks, Rich

    #71370
    Krysty Kolesar
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    Hi, Did you ever sell the Antique Erard Harp?

    #71371
    carl-swanson
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    Krysty- I’m the one who bought that harp. It turns out that it was built in 1885 and everything is original and in excellent condition. I’ve performed several times on it already. The sound is unbelievable.

    #71372
    john-strand
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    Hi Krysty – go to the David Williams Harp Galleries Website link from Harp Column – he has 3 or 4 of them –

    #71373
    kimberly-houser
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    Do the swell doors actually work? (Would love to actually play a harp with swell doors)

    #71374
    carl-swanson
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    This doesn’t have swell doors. It’s a Gothique and they didn’t have swell doors. Only the Grecians had those.

    #71375
    Tacye
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    Many English made Erard gothics had doors in the sound holes, as did my 1899 Browne and Buckwell.

    #71376
    carl-swanson
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    That’s interesting Tacye. I’ve never seen a Gothic with doors on the back. Perhaps it was the London Erard company that did it and not the Paris Erard. A friend in Boston will be getting a restored Grecian Erard in a month or two. It has the doors on the back, and that will be my first chance to play a harp that has them.

    #71377
    Tacye
    Participant

    Could be, I have seen very few Paris Erards.

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