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Hi all, I just joined this community and I'm wondering if you can help me out.
I'm a BIG fan of Celtic music, if Moravian College has a minor in it, I would probably minor in Celtic music, but alas they only have a concentration in Celtic Fiddle (maybe I should take up fiddle?).

Anyways, I also love love love playing traditional reels and stuff like

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Recorders are funny -- some of the inexpensive plastic ones sound just as good to me as pearwood and maple ones that cost 20 times as much. A guy I jam with sometimes has a $12 Yamaha recorder that sounds fantastic -- he's used it for studio recordings.

But as someone else said, if you're really into Celtic, you might want to switch to pennywhistle. Grey Larsen has a really good website and he's written a do-it-yourself tutor book that a lot of people really like:

http://www.greylarsen.com/

The other big whistle site is Chiff and Fipple:

http://www.chiffandfipple.com/indexbo.html

Back to the harp: there's not a lot of free music explicitly arranged for harp on the internet. Most harpers I know prefer to work from lead sheets and write their own arrangments. But here are some places to look:

http://www.reigningharps.com/

Has a rotating free download from the Puget Sound Folk Harpers.

http://www.folkharp.com/index.php/cPath/484?osCsid=55e03b2ecfb042a421cb6b047a8890be

Mary Radspinner (co-owner of Melody's Traditional Music) usually has a few free things up on their web catalog.

If you're looking for just melody lines without a written out arrangement, the first place to go is The Session:

http://www.thesession.org/

If you can read bass clef, a lot of piano music is relatively straightforward to adapt to harp.