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These are a little more than your budget, but not by a lot.
http://www.dustystrings.com/building/ravenna34.shtml
They’re somewhat smaller than the one you were looking at, but
Here’s a nice video of The High Kings singing the melody (note: The first a capella bit is the better-known tune for “The Parting Glass”…then they go into the one that I think is the tune source for your song):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhJp0W0ku2w
If you don’t have any luck finding harp music under the hymn title, you might under this one.
Audrey
The old Irish harps had bodies carved out of a single piece of willow, which eliminated a lot of the need for things such as clamps, power tools and glue.
There’s a fellow in our local harper group who’s trying to make one the old fashioned way…it’s slow going!
Audrey
The tune that “Danny Boy” is supposed to have been drawn from (“Aislinn an Oigfhear” in Modern Irish…The Young Man’s Dream) bears so little resemblence to it that they’re really not recognizable as being related, unless one is really stretching things.
I can tell you one thing…as a traditional Irish musician, I would run screaming in the opposite direction if I heard someone playing “Danny Boy” (aka the so-called “London” Derry Air).
Another thing to keep in mind is that most musical instruments, including some we think of as exceptionally fine instruments, are made in factories.
Lewis Creek’s closest harp to the Ravenna is $1350 with C and F levers, and is a lightly strung therapy harp.
