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  • January 30, 2011 at 1:47 am #72373
    jennifer-buehler
    Member

    Just out of curiousity, what qualities do you look for in a new, un-broken in harp?

    January 30, 2011 at 8:03 pm #72374
    rod-wagoner
    Participant

    I have an L&H Folk Harp.

    January 31, 2011 at 4:01 pm #72375
    tony-morosco
    Participant

    I don’t know how to tell how it will develop, but I have a Lyon and Healy folk harp that is almost 20 years old and it sounds fantastic. People compliment its tone all the time. If you closed your eyes you would swear

    February 2, 2011 at 8:17 pm #72376
    Saul Davis Zlatkovski
    Participant

    Oh, I thought you meant an “environmentally correct” harp!

    February 8, 2011 at 12:25 am #72377
    lauren-d
    Participant

    Are there any brands out there that focus on that?

    February 8, 2011 at 3:08 pm #72378
    kreig-kitts
    Member

    I think when you start trying to figure in things like wood sustainability, miles shipped to get materials to the harpmaker and the harp to the consumer, metals, electricity to make it, maintenance over its life, and on and on, it’s almost hopeless to try to calculate whether someone is making

    February 18, 2011 at 12:19 am #72379
    shelby-m
    Participant

    I think it’s worth chopping down a tree to turn it into a good harp, myself!

    February 18, 2011 at 1:44 am #72380
    michael-rockowitz
    Participant

    I wonder what others think.

    February 18, 2011 at 6:26 pm #72381
    kay-lister
    Member

    In response to Michaels post (just my 2 cents), I look at it more as if when there is a vocalist who starts out having a good, even great sounding voice.

    February 18, 2011 at 7:31 pm #72382
    tony-morosco
    Participant

    I agree. I have never heard of a harp ending up sounding completely different, or getting worse as it ages.

    I think that if you start with a good sounding harp you, at the least, end up over time with a good sounding harp.

    But you can also end up with, and I think often do end up with, a really good or great sounding harp.

    If what you start with sounds good I think it reasonable to expect that it will always sound good and end up sounding even better down the line.

    A few months ago one of the harpists from the local symphony tried out my Lyon and Healy and she confirmed my (perhaps biased) opinion that despite it being a very young harp it sound really nice. That made me feel very good because I believe that it will only get better from here.

    February 18, 2011 at 11:02 pm #72383
    sherry-lenox
    Participant

    Wouldn’t it be interesting to hear a Wurlitzer or Lyon and Healy that didn’t make it to the selling floor because it wasn’t up to snuff?

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