A couple of old 78s recorded playing on a vintage Decca Junior gramophone dating from the mid 1920s.  Despite being a song called ‘Land of the Harp’ they both seem to have piano accompaniment, perhaps piano recorded better on the microphones of the day…

The John Lovering version appears to be from around 1929 according to the fantastic resource that is tedstaunton.com. While the version by Miss Annie Rees is listed in the September 1924 Zonophone record catalogue here in the British Library.

More recently I have been involved in a number of projects with harpists, one of my favourites was this short film for the fantastic duo Deuair