The Parker Harp Collection
Mike Parker has built up a collection of harps covering approximately 900 years. Ranging from a small instrument with 12 horsehair strings and a parchment soundboard based on late 9th century sources, through medieval and gothic instruments to the chromatically strung harps of the renaissance & baroque and on to the pedal harp in its assorted forms.
Cecile Coutin & Mike Parker Marie Antoinette Study Day 1st February 2006 at The Wallace Collection
Mike Parker in concert at St. Pancras Church, London.
Harps left to right:
Egan Royal Portable (partially hidden), French triple harp ,19 string medieval, Erard Grecian
Queen Mary (partially hidden), Neo-celtic, Eisenach gothic
Erat single action, Arpa de dos ordones (partially hidden).
Other instruments available include Bequille and Crochet single actions 18th C. hook harp and arpa doppia
German 'partial action'.