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I've had an interesting and varied career in music. After university I trained in the 1970s as a guitar maker with John Bailey in London. I then set up on my own making guitars, lutes, and harps. I spent many years absorbed in my work, but eventually felt the need to get out into the world and do more performing. I still make all the instruments used in my recordings.

I've always been interested in stringed instruments from around the world, and this led naturally into my World of Strings workshops for children, as well as giving musical talks to adults.

After field trips recording musicians in South America, I researched a programme on Paraguayan harps for BBC Radio 3. I've also presented a TV programme on the science of sound for Channel 4.

I've had two books on music for children published, and contributed musical poems to an anthology which was shortlisted for a Blue Peter book award ("Words to whisper, Words to shout..." Belitha, 2001).

I first heard the Paraguayan Harp in the 1970s and immediately fell in love with the sound. In the late 1980s I went to Paraguay to have some lessons with Lorenzo Leguizamon.

I discovered the therapeutic effect harp music has on people, and began to create a distinctive musical sound using harp and guitar together in new ways.

I've made 6 CDs, ranging from my own harp music to a windharp playing on a Pembrokeshire beach and an anthology of spring birdsong. The latest recording, Where Fishes Swim And Songbirds Fly, is a collaboration with Northamptonshire nature poet David Garrett, mixing spoken word with harp and birdsong.