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  • May 29, 2009 at 2:58 pm #68239
    Sidney Dharmavaram
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    Has anyone tried a light tension troubadour?

    May 29, 2009 at 7:54 pm #68240
    Jerusha Amado
    Participant

    Sidney,

    I don’t think that Lyon and Healy makes a Troubadour with light tension.

    May 30, 2009 at 12:34 am #68241
    Sidney Dharmavaram
    Participant

    Here’s one: http://www.lyonhealycpo.com/info/product/Troubadour-V-Light-9142.htm

    May 30, 2009 at 12:42 am #68242
    Jerusha Amado
    Participant

    Sidney,

    Thanks for the link.

    May 30, 2009 at 12:53 am #68243
    kathy-chanik
    Participant

    Wow, this is fascinating-a Troubador with lighter tension strings.

    May 30, 2009 at 1:06 am #68244
    Sidney Dharmavaram
    Participant

    Yup!

    May 30, 2009 at 2:19 am #68245
    andy-b
    Participant

    I’d like to point out that the term lever harp simply means a harp that has levers instead of the pedal action mechanism. L&H and Salvi lever harps ARE “real” lever harps in any sense of the word. Now it is true that lever harps may have a wide range of voice, resonance,

    May 30, 2009 at 4:32 am #68246
    brook-boddie
    Participant

    Sidney, as Andy said, there are many people who prefer the sound of a pedal harp and are grateful to have lever harps that produce that sound.

    May 30, 2009 at 3:59 pm #68247
    Sidney Dharmavaram
    Participant

    And this would be why I put the word “real” in quotes.

    May 30, 2009 at 5:15 pm #68248
    andy-b
    Participant

    Sidney, my apologies if I misinterpreted what you meant. As someone who writes professionally for a living, I tend to interpret the written word literally. When you said “lever harp” and referred to how a lever harp should sound, I didn’t realize you strictly meant folk harps and folk harp sound. I agreed with you in my first post that the Prelude and Troubadour don’t have a celtic or folk sound. But I do still feel that those concert tension and sounding lever harps are not just for those starting out until you can switch to pedal as many of our regular posters demonstrate.

    May 30, 2009 at 6:22 pm #68249
    william-weber
    Participant

    Sidney, I find it strange that you conflate the two names Salvi and Lyon&Healy around a virgule, as if they were secret twins or something. Salvi is the choice of Orla Fallon, Cormac Debarra, and Moya Brennan, all of them well-known Celtic harp players.

    May 30, 2009 at 6:44 pm #68250
    Sidney Dharmavaram
    Participant

    Thanks Andy.

    May 30, 2009 at 7:01 pm #68251
    Sidney Dharmavaram
    Participant

    “Secret twins?”

    May 30, 2009 at 7:14 pm #68252
    barbara-brundage
    Participant

    Yes, L&H was purchased by Les Arts Mechaniques, the parent company of Salvi Harps, in 1987.

    May 30, 2009 at 7:22 pm #68253
    Sidney Dharmavaram
    Participant

    Another hint at their merging is their music published under Salvi Publications and also often has “LHS” references somewhere.

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