Model
Erard Empire Harp
Empire-style pedal harp
The Erard Empire harp is an early Erard pedal harp pattern produced from the late 1790s, decorated in the French Empire style fashionable under Napoleon. Roughly 1,500 Empire-model harps were made between about 1798 and 1840, making it one of the firm's two principal early patterns alongside the Grecian. Erard's Empire harps span the transition from the single-action to the 1810 patented double-action mechanism.
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Harps
Pedal harps, lever harps, harp makers, model families, and orchestral harp variants.
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Erard
Erard was a French maker of pianos and harps founded by Sebastien Erard in Paris in the late eighteenth century, renowned for developing the double-action pedal harp and the double-escapement piano action.