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The Cymreigyddion Festival - harpers, 1845. Creator: Unknown.

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The Cymreigyddion Festival - harpers, 1845. Cultural event in Wales. 'The venerable Eisteddfod of the Welsh was, in olden time, a congress of all the poets and minstrelsy of the country, attended and presided over by the princes and nobles oi the land. It was also a depository for national oral record...In Wales there are, even at the present period, several harpers who can play most rapid passages, in thirds and sixes, with both hands, clean and neat; and, notwithstanding all casual flats and sharps are produced by inserting a finger between two strings of the outer row, it is done with uncommon smoothness'. From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII.

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HRM21A07_211

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59,5Mo (4,4Mo) / 42,0cm x 35,5cm / 4960 x 4195 (300dpi)

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