The Bagpipe Society

CD Review: Harta by Harta

Harta is a trio of fine musicians - Ross Calderwood on smallpipes, Christine Martin on nyckelharpa and Jack Evans on bouzouki, guitar and whistles. The album is 48 minutes long and consists of 12 tracks. Ross is an extremely accomplished pipe maker and plays a wide variety of different keys and woods: a D set in cherry, C sets in rowan and boxwood, a G set in yew a low F set and finally a single reed medieval set. The single reed medieval set sounds remarkably like a set of säckpipa in timbre and totally suits the tracks that it is played on.

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