The first such commercially manufactured instrument was made by Camac also helped later by the request of jazz-pop harpist, Deborah Henson-Conant. ![]() Alan Stivell went on independently to design and have different single models been made with Leo Goas-Straajer( before the Camac - Alan Stivell last experiment). Alan Stivell later (early 80s) had a meeting with Joel Garnier who decided to create a model. He designed and had made a solid body (after different electric-acoustic harps) electric harp at the turn of the 70s-80s, about the same time as Rudiger Oppermann. Alan Stivell writes in his book Telenn, la harpe bretonne of his first dreams of electric harps going back to the late 50s. ![]() Like electric guitars, electric harps are based on their acoustic originals, and there are both solid body and electro-acoustic models available.Ī solid body electric harp has no hollow soundbox, and thus makes very little noise when not amplified. Deborah Henson-Conant playing her electric harp.
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