Harpist Zachary Adinolfi has been busy. Playing the Irish harp for fun, professionally and in competition, he is also on top of keeping up with his schoolwork, because Zach is 12 years old. On Dec. 4, ...

Neo-Irish style harp known as the Royal Portable Irish harp. It is non-pedal but with a sharpening mechanism. The fore pillar is square and of a modified S curve. On the inside of the pillar are 7 ...

(Paul Faith/AFP/AFP) "It's never too late to start a new hobby," says 89-year-old Irish harp-maker Noel Anderson, one of only a few making the intricate instrument, a national symbol of Ireland. A ...

David Kortier doesn’t claim Irish heritage. But he makes authentic early Irish harps, the kind played by Ann Heymann, an Irish harp music scholar and performer who lives in Winthrop, in southern ...

Natalie Surina was drawn to the ancient harps of Ireland. She doesn’t know quite what it was that called her to it. But she knows it was undeniable. “I had already been studying ancient Irish culture ...