you can’t go wrong with Grossi’s metodo par arpa, they have lovely simple, useful exercises which are mainly suitable for lever harp, as they are mainly just ion the one key. but they do get progressively more difficult. just start from the very beginning, with the very first exercise and see how you do. good luck finding a teacher,

i suppose in the states you could get it from vanderbilt music or lyra music or even sylvia woods…all have websites.

I’ve studied Grossi’s Method for Harp and it was great. I just recently bought Universal Method for Harp by Bochsa-Oburthuer and it’s beyond excellent and covers theory, many technical studies, and other information you can’t live without. I love it. If you choose to buy this book start from the beginning and take your time on the exercises from beginning to end. Once you have the beginning exercises well practiced, speed and agility will start to pick up and you can move on to the next exercises. You’ll be able to develop great technique.
-Lionel

If you have a lever harp, other good exercises/etudes are leDentu’s Douze etudes et un
theme varie by Naderman, the easy Damase etudes (10 etudes faciles et progressives) and
the Pozzoli etudes (not all the pieces in this book work, but about 80% of them do.)

I have used the Friou and the Holy with my students, but in both cases if they are the kind
of student who will do exercises and etudes, they run out pretty quickly.