A CROCHET ACTION PEDAL HARP by Henri Nadermann, circa 1820, indistinctly stamped at the top of the soundboard; the body of seven staves, the arm with floral mouldings, the soundboard painted with flowers and garlands encircling the rosettes of soundholes, the fluted column surmounted by a scroll carved with acanthus leaves, thirty-seven strings, seven pedals, height 64 5/16in. (163.4cm.)

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A CROCHET ACTION PEDAL HARP by Henri Nadermann, circa 1820, indistinctly stamped at the top of the soundboard; the body of seven staves, the arm with floral mouldings, the soundboard painted with flowers and garlands encircling the rosettes of soundholes, the fluted column surmounted by a scroll carved with acanthus leaves, thirty-seven strings, seven pedals, height 64 5/16in. (163.4cm.)
Provenance
Schloss Dyck, Jüchen
Literature
H.J.Zingel, Historische Harfen im Rheinland, Mitteilungen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für rheinische Musikgeschichte e.V., no.40, December 1972, p.168
Vereinigung deutscher Harfenisten, Mitteilungsblatt, no.22, November 1974, p.17

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