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Jennifer's Albums
of Original Harp Compositions
Playing to Angels
Finding Our Sky
Now Then Forever
Thirty-one October Nights
The Lost Songs
Twenty-five Days of Christmas
Tied with a Silver Chain
Though involved with the Northwest Girls' Choir as a pre-teen, the sensual art of making music escaped Jennifer until her mid-thirties when Cris built her a lap harp and then an upright harp from scratch kits. Three albums of original compositions later, Jennifer's naturally analytical mind started to take apart the structure of various styles of harps. She now builds both raindrop lap harps in various themes -- solstice, steampunk, gothic -- and upright harps made from raw woods that she harvests from windfall and pruning. Jennifer calls this type of harvesting "harp hunting."
To the right are photos of harps Jennifer designed and scratch-built, including: A siren harp made from driftwood; a raindrop solstice harp with holly and ivy wood-burned designs; the ornate cut-out work of a maple tree on the back of an upright soundbox, and a solid maple trunk and branch, preserved in clear resin and bound with braided leather straps, that was mounted in front of the soundbox shown.
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