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And the harp has a very healthy background in folk and Celtic tradition. Now there as
as evidence of harps being in Ireland around the 7th century. And around the same time
you're going to hear a lot of oral tradition of harps being applied to the mythology and
to the fairies I just carried down. Now in Ireland the harp got to be so popular and
so deep seated into the culture that not only did the fairies get to play it but pretty
much everybody else got to too. Now when you're talking about the fairies and the mythology
then you get a little bit of magic. Because it was said that the fairy magic got amplified
when they we're playing the harp. So like anything the Irish took something good and
they made it their own. This is not an Celtic harp. This is a basic folk harp. It has a
very straight sound board and a straight pillar. But the Celtics designed there own. They designed
what is called and still is a Celtic harp. Now basically what this is is it, it consists
of a sound board that is carved from a single piece of wood, the entire thing. And the column
is going to be a curve column. It's very beautiful. It runs about the same size as this. And it's
just a little bit of a different shape, that's all it is. You play it while sitting on the
ground so that you can be closer to the earth. That's the idea. Now Ireland was so beloved
of this beautiful instrument that it made it its national symbol in instrument. You
will find it on everything from their flags to their coat of arms to their coinage money.
And again certain companies decided to use it for their icons as well. It's actually
a really great thing when an entire country loves an instrument so much that they're going
to put it on their coat of arms. But it defines them. And that's what these little beauties
get to do.