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Simon Chadwick is a musician, researcher and teacher, specialising in traditional Irish harp. He researches and studies the lives and works of the old harpers, their tunes and playing techniques, and the design and setup of their harps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simon\u2019s work started when he made a harp with wire strings. He learned to play it by working through Ann Heymann\u2019s books. At every stage he asked himself difficult questions about his instrument, its stringing and setup, the tunes, the style, the playing techniques, the contexts, the cultural background… He applied his formal training in archaeology and physics to try and answer these questions, often spending more time on research than on playing, and usually generating more new questions than answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the very beginning of his studies, Simon was asked to teach the harp. He worked with piper Barnaby Brown on developing pioneering online video lessons and website publishing over 20 years ago, and he collaborated with Siobh\u00e1n Armstrong to help create a thriving scene of playing wire-strung Irish harps in Ireland. Originally from the south of England, Simon relocated to Scotland where he became involved with the Scottish traditional music scene in Dundee, working with Sheena Wellington to organise events and classes there. Since 2018 Simon has been living in Armagh in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simon\u2019s other musical love is change ringing on tower bells. He learned the art from his mother when he was a young boy; now he is Northern District Assistant Ringing Master in the Irish Association of Change Ringers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Simon Chadwick is a musician, researcher and teacher, specialising in traditional Irish harp. He researches and studies the lives and works of the old harpers, their tunes and playing techniques, and the design and setup of their harps. Simon\u2019s work started when he made a harp with wire strings. He learned to play it by … Continue reading <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2016","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonchadwick.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonchadwick.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonchadwick.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonchadwick.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonchadwick.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/simonchadwick.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15624,"href":"https:\/\/simonchadwick.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2016\/revisions\/15624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonchadwick.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}