Since coming back from our travels and setting up Hands on Harps in September 2013, we're happy to announce that we've now made 100 harps! Through plenty of blood, sweat, tears, loads of mistakes, celebrations and lessons, we've honed the…
Hey all, a belated welcome to the new year from Hands on Harps! We're really excited about 2017, we've got loads of workshops planned, we're developing a new 34 string harp (watch this space) and we're improving our current model…
As usual I'm a month late in saying welcome to Charlie and Hannah! We've been so busy building a batch of harps that I haven't had time to post. Charlie is from Bridgwater and is a great guitarist-he's already taught…
Check this artwork by Jeff Firth. He was sat on a sofa happily working away on his iPad while the session was going on, and came over to us at the end to show what he had been working on.…
We've been busy this past week running workshops at different events. First was a day of workshops in the beautiful setting of All Saint's Church in King's Lynn. We had some fantastic musicians and really enjoyed the sessions. You can…
Welcome to our new website. We're really excited about it, we think it looks great. Huge thanks to Luke Scudder at Tewktech and Enrica and Gabriele at Get Nashi. We'd love to hear what you think about it-drop us a line at…
We are proud to announce that our concert on 6th December went very well indeed. With lots of help from many wonderful people (name checked below) we created a lovely calm atmosphere and put on a concert that, judging by…
It's coming together, with 3 and a half weeks until our first concert here is a glimpse of us practicing The First Noel: Our concert is on 6th December in Nailsworth Subscription Rooms. You can get tickets here: [button link="https://www.handsonharps.com/harp-orchestra/"]…
This week we started learning accompaniments to go with The First Noel. We're starting to sound orchestral! Don't think we didn't notice that none of you played along with the last bit of the accompaniment! :) But good effort today,…
This week we had a new member join, so welcome Elizabeth. Last week we were also joined by Izzy, who can only come every week so isn't in this week's videos. Both have picked up the harp quite naturally as…