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  • #159689
    unknown-user
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    Hi guys, I’m a fairly advanced cellist and thought I’d like to try something new, so I’ve been looking at some harps to try to pick up. From what i’ve read a pedal harp is the kind of thing i’d want. Thing is, whenever I look at some online they all cost at least $10,000 :). So I was wondering if any of you more experienced harpists have any idea about a cheap pedal harp for a beginner? I could always go lever, I mean i don’t mind, but pedal harp just seems cool for like classical and stuff. Thanks a lot!!

    #159690
    dawn-penland
    Participant

    Hi John,

    I started playing the cello when I was 10, then took up the harp at age 11.

    #159691
    Tacye
    Participant

    It is quite easy to get a pedal harp for under $10 000- second hand 40 or 41 string instrument seem to be relatively easily available.

    #159692
    unknown-user
    Participant

    Hi, thanks for the advice. At the moment I have a $2000 cello, which is pretty good quality. I’d like to try to get a harp for under that. My very first cellos I rented from my teacher, but the first one I owned was $1400, it was more of a student/beginner’s cello i suppose. Would you say that this is essentially the price range for used harps as well?

    #159693
    dawn-penland
    Participant

    You could find a used lever harp in that price range.

    #159694
    tony-morosco
    Participant

    I’m sorry but you are not going to find a playable pedal harp for $2,000.

    around $10,000 is the average for the least expensive, decent, new pedal harps.

    If you want something cheaper than that you have to buy used, but even then you are not going to find a pedal harp for under $2,000 that is playable. Perhaps something that needs LOTS of repairs and work but isn’t playable without it.

    #159695
    michael-rockowitz
    Participant

    John,

    There’s always the cross strung – far cheaper and lighter than any pedal harp, and you can play in any any key, far more efficiently than you can with any harp with levers!

    #159696
    jennifer-byrne
    Participant

    I agree with the idea of renting a harp first just to make sure it is going to stick.

    #159697
    Ian McVoy
    Participant

    I have a twenty year old L&H style 85 CG and at $10,000, we got a deal.

    #159698

    I don’t think you realize. $2,000 for a cello is nothing.

    #159699
    unknown-user
    Participant

    Hey, I’m no Janos Starker. I don’t claim to own a Stradivarius. but it’s good enough for my needs by a lot, especially considering my budget, i don’t have 10,000 dollars to set aside.

    #159700
    dawn-penland
    Participant

    It’s hard to come up with money for instruments.

    #159701
    katerina
    Participant

    Pedal harps… and why not to get an Italian baroque triple? The technic is different from pedal harps, but the triple is absolutely chromatic and has lots of possibilities. I play one, the first touch made me giving up the lever and pedal harps forever. :-) Amazing instrument…

    #159702
    kreig-kitts
    Member

    Yes, $2,000 for a cello is nothing compared to old instruments or those from well-known makers, but it can

    #159703
    andy-b
    Participant

    I agree with those who have suggested starting with a lever harp. You then also have the option of going with something more like a folk harp in sound and appearance, or a harp like the Salvi Ana,

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