Help – I’ve already broken two strings on my new Camac Melusine nylon strung harp (2nd octave and 2nd octave B – they broke at the levers).
Should I be worried? Could there be something wrong with the harp?
The harp is beautiful to play, but I am certainly very disappointed as one reason for choosing this model was that I thought that the days of constantly breaking gut strings would be over.
One of my students was having trouble with breaking strings, and it turned out that she had the harp by a sunny window. Once she moved the harp to a shadier spot in the house, the strings settled down.
I am interested to know of other people’s experiences of string breakages with nylon-strung harps.
I did have an optimistic idea that my new Melusine would mean an end to the stress and inconvenience of constant string breakages (as happens with gut-strung harps).