“Scarborough Fair Like Never Before 🎶✨ - Jaw-Dropping 21-String Harp Guitar Performance 🎸🤯”
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Hi there!
It's been 5 months since my last video (it's been a pretty busy summer at work).
This is my arrangement of the traditional English ballad "Scarborough fair" for 21 string harp guitar.
This instrument was custom built for me by Italian luthier Mauro Marchesini, it's fun to play but very challenging, especially for the right hand but sounds like an orchestra!
The tuning I chose for this tune is (low to high):
D F G A B C D - D A D G A E - D E F G A B C D with
a capo on the 5th fret.
Recorded at home and mixed and mastered by Jordi Gil at Sputnik Studios.
Please press the HD button for a better audio and video quality (best with headphones for a stereo experience).
This song is dedicated to José María Viejo and his son Darío.
Enjoy and feel free to share!
Javier
Seven years on, this gentleman is still thanking people for commenting on his video, which is almost as impressive as the video itself.
Thanks for your comment Dr Parnassus, all the best! J
One who cares for others shall always possess the heart and soul of kindness 🙏🏼💓
Thank you very much for your kind comments! All the best
MUSIC from HEAVEN MAGNIFICENT🙏🏻✝️🙏🏻thank you My GOD🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻✝️✝️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💌💌💌💌💌💌💌💌
@ thank you so much for your support
Without a doubt, this is the most beautifull rendition of Scarborough Fair I have heard in all of my 82 years!
@@bvwolf9513 thank you very much for your comment, you made my day!
I could listen to him all day, every day!
I suffer with chronic pain, more specificaly at night - especially when I am trying to fall asleep. Luckily for me this music video came up by UA-cam recommendation two weeks ago. I play it nightly now through a pair of quality headphones and can actually forget my pain, begin to totally relax and sometime fall asleep. Thank you Javier Rubio Carballo for sharing your wonderful gift.
Thank you very much for your kind comments! All the best
I share this sentiment ......
It is awesome
to leave ... overwhelming flurries
of noise world noise
media ... information ....clashing...
Step ...away from bombardment and
yes.......
pain and
With headphones 🎧 employed
Eyes closed
Late hour
Sleep beckons..... but waits
As
Sound enters
Takes its rightful place
The journey of serenity
The Pluck s of melodious beauty
Rolling the waves of
Appreciation
Swelling the heart with delight
Of this gift that
Is ours ... to savour
Whenever we want to
Fly with
Admiration and gratitude
For this exquisite gift & talent...
Thank you........
The healing properties of music are undeniable. One Sunday to morning an elderly woman congregant came up to me and told me that she suffered from chronic, debilitating pain. As soon as I began playing my violin, she told me, the pain diminished. I felt so blessed. Blessings to you.
@@danielzwickel7147 Blessings to you :)
I also suffer from moderate to severe chronic pain, and truly understand how amazing music can truly be! It help distract the mind from the body!!. This guy is amazing. I also listen to his stuff at night. (Well the day too). It helps to calm down my mind it’s always going million miles a minute and this really does helps distract me from the pain. I’m so happy it helped other people too! It really is incredible.😊
When you have watched as many instrumental videos as I have, you are convinced that somewhere in your history you have viewed the best there is. Then this drops in to your feed and suddenly you have a new benchmark. Absolutely beautiful.
What an absobloominglutely lovely contraption..for me..something new under the sun creating hidden beauty..thrilling..🇨🇦
Alanm6454: Very well said!
Totally agree...who thinks of a 21-string guitar, then designs and builds it !!
Amen to that.
Magical and spellbinding
Thank you so much!
Yeah!
Don't Stop.
Feels like a composition straight out of medieval Europe.
Because it is?
I’ve never been there. Actually I studied Tudor history, so don’t jump on my joke. Henry VIII did not write Greensleeves. And if you must know, having intercourse without clothes on was illegal. But, I wouldn’t be here if that law hadn’t been broken many times.
@@martinphilip8998 that goes without saying. Reminds me of the song ‘Nights in White Satin’ by the Moody Blues.
The tune is out of medieval Europe.
Now US, backwards in time.
No words, just CELESTIAL!!!
Thanks for the comments!
4 words then, 😆👍
Ethereal
So at least one then
My wife and I just discovered this. We've listened maybe 20 times in the past 8 days. Can't get enough. Thank you for lightening our home.
Glad you like it! All the best! Thanks
I have been trying to write a comment for a long time, worthy of the musical beauty of this video. Javier Rubio Carballo, people like you give color to life. Thank God you exist.
It struck me the same way.. in the end all I could say was thank you.. such beauty .. it does give color to life.. well said..
I think the secret is that this virtuoso uses his superior technique to emphasize the beauty of the melody, unlike many other virtuosos, even bigger than him, who are able to ruin the melody, to emphasize their technical superiority through as many notes played in unit of time.
@@milanpetkovic3074 I see what your saying.. they want to show there ability to play complicated cords, notes and other combinations to the determent of the music. I agree.. But then also he could just be one of those that has the music inside him.. those folk always play so beautifully. But well said Milan..
How true.
@@tinkmarshino This piece was perfectly balanced to create an emotional response in a person. You can not only hear it, you can feel it. That's where the "magic" is.
Beautiful! I've never heard a harp-guitar before. Seems like it was made just for this song and others like it. ❤ 🌹
What looks effortless is in truth years of dedication and experience. Artists are dedicated to their craft. This man is a pure joy to listen to.
Thanks for the comments!
Javier, this is heavenly💖💖👍👍💝💝💝💝Thank you....milliones!!!!!
This was heart achingly beautiful!! Thank you for loading up this!❤️
Beautiful, I am 83 years old and a Church organist for the past 51 years. I love your harp-guitar and the sound you make on it. Thank You
GOD BLess This Musician🙏🏻🙏🏻✝️✝️🙏🏻🙏🏻💌💌🎸🎸🎸
@DavidMarchand-n5b Thank you very much for your kind comments! All the best
BEAUTIFUL. MUSIC from OUTSTANDING MUSICIAN🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
Is anyone else amazed by the sheer amount of hand-eye coordination this man is showing off here. I mean he's literally playing three different and differently tuned instruments all in one body. and he has to keep track of all of them AND he's finger picking with his entire right hand. This is mental...
This arrangement is gorgeous, and it took me until halfway through to realize that there was a third set of tiny strings below the soundhole. Amazing.
I don't see a third set. But the strings I do see and hear are spectacular sounding. This guy is amazing playing this
@@bornwithbsguards If you look carefully under the center strings, right under the guitar's soundhole you can see the tiny strings he used for the ridiculous high notes. He's mostly playing it with his pinky and ring fingers.
This thing's construction is insane.
@@bornwithbsguards Look along the curve and you'll see the posts that hold the strings. They are used to play the really high notes.
That is why playing music causes the brain to literally light up like a star. It’s the only thing that turns on all aspects of the mind at once and gives you a great boost at the same time. It’s why after a performance it’s almost hard to come off the high.
Not hand eye coordination except for when you start learning it. Since it becomes muscle memory eventually.
Mind blown finding this on the internet. So beautiful and well played on a special instrument. Such talent.
Literally just became obsessed woth this song all the sudden, then a day later find your HARP GUITAR on youtube out of recommendations, AND you cover this song on it. What a good day
Speechless, I have nothing to say, i just listen.
I’ve been playing/writing music for 30+ years. This is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I’ve ever heard. What a blessing. Wonderful job!
Thanks for the comments!
i agreee azzzzzzzzzzz
Headphones only for this video. You do not want to miss a beat.
I am spellbound by this man's playing. If Heaven were a song, it would be this one.
This kind of music makes me cry. I have been feeling dead lately, this kind of music brings be back to life. Thank you for sharing.
Yes this song definitely makes you feel alive!!
Hope you're feeling much better 🙏🙏 take care
Who are the people that disliked this!?! Jealousy? What then? This is just beautiful, awesome!!
Well, it ain't jazz!
I love the guitar and the skill involved, I just don't like the keys/ synth backing. Maybe that's why they disliked.
@@pouzzler Well; I can see your point. Beutyfull listening to thou
They are immersed in their techno. Fine as long as they use earphones
@@pouzzler thankfully
Shut your eyes and this song will drag you to Scarborough fair on the wings of this beautiful tone
(wishpering:
...close...
close your eyes... yes, close)
I Never knew a Harp Guitar existed till now. Amazing talent and instrument
I have always held that a great performance isn't one that has the crowd cheering even before then, that has them surging to their feet immediately at the end of the performance with wild abandoned applause. A truly great performance is one that leaves the audience in totally shocked silence, unable to know quite how to respond to the magnitude of what they had just been transformed to witness. At the end of this rendition of Scarborough Fair, I sat in silence. Bravo.
Thanks for watching! Love your comment, all the best! Javier
These little-known instruments need to make a comeback. Way too beautiful!
Incredible sound from one instrument must be so complex to play but so fulfilling for the musician
This was honestly the most heart wrenching version yet. It gives me a nostalgia that i Dont know how to connect.
Please keep playing that beautiful instrument.
Heard this song lots before but I got the _chills._ This is my favorite rendition now!
What a beautiful instrument. It almost sounds medieval. It's awesome and I love it. ❤️
the high pitched rhythmic section makes me think of a music box, like a memory of a lover long past
So beautiful ❤
"Transported ".........
Soaring..........steeped ........MAGNIFICENT!!...."Deep calls to deep".........thank you............
00:23 Imagine a scenery of a character like a knight for example, riding a horse, going straight on a journey towards his destination in slow-motion with this cover in play... ETHEREAL MAGIC RIGHT THERE! 🎶
My God! How beautiful is this! I'm 70 years old and have never seen an instrument like this. It is mesmerizingly fascinating.❤❤❤❤
A most perfect rendition of Scarborough Fair. God Bless!
Thanks a lot!
Wow ... this is so unbelievably beautiful. I am now 51 and have listened to music all my life but nothing comes closer to perfection. Would love to see more of these arrangements.
What a wonderful rendition of this song! Your musicianship is amazing! Thank you very much for sharing your music.
At the age of 73 I first heard a harp guitar 2 days ago - my new favorite musical instrument. And so beautifully played.
Thanks for the comments!
What a stunning sound.
@grigorisgirl thank you so much!
I had to go back and listen to it multiple times because I felt as though I didn't appreciate it enough the first time. It's just awesome!
Супер - инструмент+ супер- музыкант= шедевр.
Hearing this beautiful rendition with Channel 5 on makes me very very happy.
This is probably the most beautiful rendition of this song I have ever heard.
Unbelievably beautifull, all the different colours and cadences and string sections...wow...very rare Talent,very very rarely seen...10 Stars worth of Passion and Expression of the Guitar🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Magical instrument combined with a stunning performance = pure bliss…heaven…nirvana.
This is absolutely beautiful, thank you Javier. I think Paul and Art would love it if they haven't heard it already.. it captures the heart of their song and adds a depth of feeling to it that is incredibly moving.
Every time I get upset or stressed out ... I come to play this heavenly music over and over again until I calm down.
That's how much I and thousands of people that you don't know owe you.
No thanks can be enough to repay you Javier.
Thanks to you for listening my friend!
The song, as played by you, carries me back to my visits to England.... thank you and God bless you for the experience!!!
Me also
Today was another rough day where things went wrong as they do sometimes. I ran into this...well...I don't have the words for what I am hearing, by complete accident. Now, listening to it for the second or third time, as I sit here with my son sleeping on my lap, surrounded by family, I think it has been a good day. That it what this music has done for me. Thank you.
Thanks for the comments Damon!
Such a rich tapestry of sonic perfection! My heart soars and weeps at the same time! Please consider making this beautiful rendition available for purchase! Until then, thanks for sharing your incredible talents.
Thanks for the comments!
Yes, please. I'd love to be able to purchase this.
Yes, me too. Best version ever!
My heart felt such joy and "saudade" with this version of scarborough fair
Agreed!❤
This is without a doubt one of the most beautiful performances I have ever heard, thankyou for sharing this
Thanks for the comments!
Wow! I came across this video by accident and am so glad I did. It's stunning. Thank you so much for making my day!
Thank you so much!
En mis sueños vi al Señor tocando la Guitarra arpa. Yo no sabia que existía este Celestial instrumento. 🙏
Man o man I’ve heard this song played so many ways this is the most endearing
I am in tears because of the beauty and perfection of this piece..it's a performance for the Heavenly realms of Angelic Hosts.
Wow, that was absolutely amazing. Goosebumps! So beautiful.
This is the best arrangement I have ever seen for this old and beautiful song. It's like you have caught the real meaning of the song from centuries in the past.
Thank you for showing your talent to the world! Keep doing it.
Thanks for the comments Franciane!
What's the name of the song? Sounds familiar
Very reassuring. This song catapults me into a time I didn't know...
Who the hell gives this a thumbs down??? Some people are just determined to be miserable and to try and drag others down with them. It was beautiful. Thank you.
You make me feel more connected to God listening to your musicality through this song, congratulations on the performance.
Music for the HEART an SOUL💌🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
Thank you so much!
How absolutely stunning. Sounds like an orchestra's playing.
Simply beautiful....What else can you say.
Such a beautiful arrangement. I am glad I stumbled upon thus video. Thank you.
Thank you so much!
I am not normally given to an OMG ...but ....
What a fantastic arrangement, and isn't it lovely to hear a talented Spanish guitarist using his skills to play an English ballad, when so often it is the other way around.
This is so exquisite and hauntingly beautiful. I've listened so many times. And this morning I just put it on loop. How awesome it would be to hear music in my head as Javier does. When I listen to this song I hear music from all four seasons of the year- tender spring flowers unfolding, summer sunlight sweeping across a meadow, the wind in the cattails and dry oak leaves in fall, and snowflakes swirling in winter. I just want his music to become the background music of my life.
Beutifully said! ;)
First its one of my favourite songs of ever and second no one plays it like Javier it brings such joy :)
First time I have heard of a harp guitar. Beautiful sound!!!
Sounds like he mastered it..🎶🌟
Javier.. You are probably the best guitarist I have ever heard and I am 65yrs old and I have heard a lot of good music in my lifetime. Well done. Would love to hear some more of your Harp Guitar.
Thanks for the compliments Geoffrey! Have a great day!
Same here man also a 60 plus years old and i luv that old song resurected
Rather revised into a new concept of a classic song
You have brought me to life , even knowing my time is limited due to my health condition. I have enjoyed every second and I wish above there this kind of music do exist. Thank you son stunning 👍🤍👌
Hope you get well soon Zain! Thank you very much for your kind words, all the best!
Well thank you You Tube for throwing this in the mix. Just when you thought you heard it all something even more beautiful comes your way!!!
Just WOW
One of the better arrangements. Doesn't get much better than this.
It just gives that piece such depth ans really is reminicent of a much more elegant time . Please do another video! Simply lovely. I played viola and really enjoy others talent with stringed instruments..
A generational talent. Absolutely great playing Outstanding.
One of the best version,I 've ever heard!!!,👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I've never heard of this instrument until today. When listing to this music I feel no other instrument is necessary- bravo!
Oh, my - how does one describe what this does for your soul! What a gift you have, Javier. Bravo! And thank you 🙏🙏🙏.
This has to be the most beautiful version of "Scarborough Fair" in the key of D minor, I ever heard. It sounds like a Medieval composition from old England. The harp guitar is such a wonderfully created type of guitar. I would think if you already know how to play a regular guitar, you can certainly play this one also. The sound is so heavenly. This version can sound nice on the piano too. Very nice job Javier!!! Many blessings!!!
It is a medieval tune from old England . Here's Ewan Mac Coll's 1957 version ua-cam.com/video/0RAyU22l93g/v-deo.html
I just close my eyes and envision myself playing this. Wow!
That is one of the most beautiful renditions of Scarborough Fair that I've ever heard. I wish you had a CD available of your music! I know I will listen to this vid many times. Thank you and God bless.
An ethereal rendition of a song that’s been plucking heartstrings round the world for five decades and more. You’ve left me in tears, like I was when I heard it first as a teenager…
Glad you enjoyed it! All the best
Just amazing, and lit by Caravaggio!
Jaw-Dropping is a very accurate description. Absolutely stunning performance.
Sounds from havens, just magnificent!
Why is this not on Spotify. This fuckin fantastic. What an insane instrument
in the era of vocoders, trap music and stuff like that, hearing such music, admiring such dedication, is more than a pleasure. it demonstrates that human being is still capable of real Art
Thanks a lot for the comments Omo!
Just found this and WOW! AMAZING!!
This gives this already beautiful song a whole New dimension. Love it🥰
Classic brilliance 20th century song writing meets ancient musical instrument played by a young man. What a sublime blend. So jaw dropping in its beauty and emotion.
This is probably my favorite instrumental version of Scarborough Fair. Well done!!!
I love this as it was my high school's graduation proms song.
WOW !!!! EXCELLENT !!!! GENIUS !!!
How could anybody NOT like this?!!! When someone makes something this complicated to play, look effortless, you know the guy is GOOD !!! Y'all grow up!
Thanks a lot William!
This was the lullaby which I sung to both of my young children for years. It still rings a special cord for me. Thank you for your wonderful interpretation of this work by Simon and Garfunkel; a musical rendition of a poem and a song which became an anti-war musical piece in our hearts. ☮ May you and yours...Be In Good Health.
The sound of the guitar strings is so beautiful.
What an amazing instrument the quality of sound produced is Stunningly Beautiful.
I don't like guitar BUT I am in love with harp-guitar!!!!
Scarborough fair is already a beautiful piece of music, but this was even better. Goosebumps.