New and improved version of my arrangement of The Skye Boat Song for the double strung Brittany harp. That’s a Scottish clarsach style small harp you see behind me in the thumb nail. I even speak and show you the harp! 😉
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and here are my lyrics referencing Outlander. At some point I’ll record myself singing this, but G isn’t my singing key, so it’s a bit of a stretch!
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Shawn L. Bird 
Beautiful Shawn. No wonder the harp is my National instrument.
xxx Massive Hugs xxx
Glad you enjoyed it! I may have had one Welsh piece in my old memorized repertoire: Suo Gan. I’ll have to brush it up and play it for you! 🙂
Lovely Shawn. One of my sisters is learning the Irish harp.
Nice thing about learning to play the harp- it sounds good even when you are a bare beginner, unlike trumpet or violin! lol Best wishes to her.
Excellent Shawn. I thought you were to recite or sing your poetic verses simultaneously.
Someday I may get to that point, but thusfar, it takes too much brain to just play the harp. I haven’t been able to multi-task enough to sing or recite yet! 🙂
Beautiful sound and nice melody. 😀
Thanks.
So amazing, the Skye Boat Song has never sounded better.
lol You are kind.
Very impressive, only a select few know how to use the instrument. I once tried to play the harp, haha you don’t want to know how that turned out 😀
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just…oh, Shawn, just lovely
Thanks, Charissa!
What a beautiful way for me to begin my morning: coffee and lovely harp music. Thanks!
My pleasure! I’m so glad you enjoyed it.
I have never heard anyone playing a harp before. Really! So soothing to listen to, and you played it really well. Bravo!
Thanks. It’s a lovely instrument to play. I am glad to be back at it after a long sabbatical away.
*concert chanting* WE WANT MORE! WE WANT MORE! WE WANT MORE! 😀
lol There will be more. Eventually. Starting over with this harp tuned in G means I have to develop all new repertoire. It’s coming slowly. Up to 4 tunes now! 🙂
Beautiful! I could listen to you play all day.
Thanks. My dogs get a lot of private concerts. 😉
What a sweet way to start my day! Thanks so much, Shawn.
My pleasure!
That was great. Really enjoyed it.
Thank you! Thanks for taking the time to comment!
Wow. Beautiful!
It’s a lovely melody. I’m so glad to have it in my repertoire! 🙂
A very relaxing melody Shawn.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Yes : D
Very cool. Lovely is an excellent description.
Thanks, Narble. 😉
This is very beautiful!!
Thanks, Madeline!
absolutely LOVE that you post this beautiful music… thank you for your time and talent.
My pleasure, Annette. Thanks for visiting so regularly, and re-tweeting so frequently on Twitter! I appreciate your time!
I could listen all day. How wonderful! —Chagall 🙂
Thanks Chagall!
Lovely! Such a nice way to start my day. Thank you.
My pleasure, Kim! We need to get together sometime!
Wow, Shawn! Listening to your piece really made my day. It was beautiful. 🙂
Thank you very much.
Absolutely lovely!!
Thanks Barb!
You’re very welcome. Such a beautiful harp and I love the way you play it. My favorite kind of music too.
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Wow, this is beautiful! It’s very calming and the melody is lovely. 🙂
Glad you enjoyed it.
Very nice. I like this kind of music anyway.
Thanks, Jack.
Reblogged this on When Life Gives you Lemons… and commented:
Hello readers! Here is my feature of the week – a post from author Shawn L. Bird. Enjoy, as I did, her beautifully composed piece on the harp. 🙂
Thank you for the re-blog Danyealah!
You’re welcome! I wanted to show my support. 🙂
Good to see and hear!
Beautiful! Love listening to the harp. Thank you.
My pleasure.
Loved your performance.
This is lovely! Calming like the soundscape channel I listen to all the time.
Thanks
Lovely piece of music. Enjoyed your rendition on the harp. 🙂 Kind regards, Iris.
Thanks, Iris.
I do need to get a better equipment rather than my computer’s internal camera/mic if I want to do serious recording, but this has at least stopped the nagging I was getting to post my playing! 😉
Do that Shawn. Your harp playing is beautiful. 🙂
Thanks
One of my favorite songs. Takes me back to past lives…
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[…] Starz has released the first episode of Outlander, and with it, Bear McCreary’s theme song based on The Skye Boat Song. I predicted that tune choice back in June, and posted a video of my harp arrangement. […]