Aha, you’re in Canada. If you did decide to go the two-harp route, the Bourget Feather looks like it might make a good gigging harp, and presumably exams are rare enough that you could manage to get your bigger harp there for special occasions. I don’t have any easy way to get my harp outside my home at all, but it’s rented out on the understanding that I return it for a week once a year for them to use at the Edinburgh Festival, so my partner wrangles it into a taxi for those occasions.
http://www.westcoastharps.com/used-harps.html
12lb, so significantly lighter than your current Triplett, goes down to the bottom F so you’d need to work around that for repertoire, but the idea would be to use that as a gigging harp and have a nice big classical-sounding harp at home the rest of the time. And at least it goes down a string lower than your Sierra. Then that would free you up to buy whatever you liked for your main harp, giving you more options on the second-hand market too. I have no idea what it sounds like or what it’s like to play, but that’s a good price, Truitts are good levers and lightweight, and that’s a seriously impressive weight for a harp that size. It says light-medium tension and a bell-like voice, and you wanted something more classical sounding, but it can be nice having two harps with different voices. What sort of gigging do you do? If you do decide to get a separate gigging harp, a lot depends on the style of music you’ll be wanting to play.
One thing to bear in mind about the bigger, more classical-style lever harps, is that if you want to be making lots of rapid lever changes, and you are not particularly tall, check you can reach the bass levers comfortably. Admittedly I’m disabled with shoulder problems and am only 4’11, plus I have a taste for ridiculously chromatic music such as Bach lute suites, so this problem seems to affect me disproportionately, but it’s worth bearing in mind just in case.
Would another option be to keep your current Triplett as the gigging harp?
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