Originally from Cardiff, Mr Shiers has built the instruments for 30 years and said he wanted to take harp manufacturing into the 21st Century.

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As I got older, I wanted to branch out and experiment with other instruments.

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The loans were repackaged into instruments that were sold all over the world, to those who wanted better returns than they could get otherwise in the fixed-income realm.

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