David Drain, a cabinetmaker for thirty years, decided to try to build a harp, thinking, "How hard can it be? They're just two boards and a box. Boxes and boards, I know."

Over a hundred harps later, the humbled craftsman has learned more about not only 'boxes and boards' but how to see past wood's superficial beauty and hear its soul. Too bad about all the dust, though.

This proves, of course, that you can take spiritual journeys on a table saw or that you can get lost trying to sum youself up in the third person.

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I'm asked why I've named the new small harps the Black Mountain Series. I'll sneak it in here at the bottom of the page that nobody ever really looks at. It named after an American folk song I once heard sung by Doc Watson called "Black Mountain Blues". The last stanza ends:

"I'm goin to Black Mountain
Where a child can spit in your face
[Repeat]
I'm goin to Black Mountain
Where the babies cry for whiskey
And the birds all sing bass."

Well, this little bird sings the best bass you ever heard.

almost weightless

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