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When Catriona McKay took up the harp, she didn’t so much acquire a third instrument as collect her passport.

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The Glasgow-based Dundonian was already studying piano and playing organ in St Mary’s Parish Church, one of Dundee’s imposing City Churches with its locally famous Old Steeple, when in her early teens she took a notion for the harp.

 

“I’ve no idea where this came from,” she says.

“I just got this idea that I should play the harp.”

 

Things may be different nowadays but back in the late 1980s and early 1990s Dundee wasn’t exactly harp central. There was one player of the clarsach, or Scottish