single and multiple harp owners

[deb-l]

Alice, you also have both folk and classic lever harps!

[Karen Johns]

Not really. I’m dealing with medium-high (Dragonheart) to medium (Voyageur) to medium wire(Limerick). If I were going from low tension to high I think there would be more of an issue, but these tensions are fairly compatible, especially between the Limerick and Dragonheart. The wire makes my fingers a little more sore like the tighter upper strings of the Dragonheart. All three harps are super-responsive so I don’t feel like I have to pull more on one or the other.

[deb-l]

thanks for your reply Karen.

[Karen Johns]

My Dragonheart has an octave of gut strings, the next set above the bass wound wire (B-B). The rest are nylon. I could have requested more gut strings but I don’t trust them in the upper octaves after reading and seeing how easily they break. Plus the expense- no thank you! Not worth the supposed nicer sound (which I really haven’t noticed).

The Dragonheart pretty much has my full attention now! I’m trying to acclimate myself to the different shape of the soundbox. Every harp is different and there will always be a “breaking in” period. At least that is what I keep telling myself to help with the guilt over neglecting the other two!

The Voyageur also needs a new set of strings, it just

[deb-l]

hi Karen, smart of you not to get the gut strings in the upper octaves, those strings seem more prone to breakage in the heat.

[Rebecca Frager]

I have two harps…A Lyon & Healy Ogden and a Lyon and Healy Chicago CG straight on its way to my home.

[karen]

Not sure which Karen you were asking since there seem to be quite a few of us!
My Dusty is nylon and my Pratt is concert spacing and concert(pedal) tension gut with Pirastro nylon in the upper octave. I actually quite like going between the two and don’t seem to have too much trouble with it. The sound and feel are so different and what it takes to play them feel different but that is part of the beauty of having two harps that are different!

[Karen Johns]

Good thing I didn’t post with just

[deb-l]

call in and take a ‘harp’ day.

[Ann]

I have only one harp that I use. I own 2 because I have not yet sold the harp I upgraded from (30-string beautiful ribbon mahogany, C&F Robinson levers, removable legs, anybody interested?).

I love my new Magical Strings harp, 36-string Kailey Concert model built by Phil Boulian.

[KarenA]

Yes but since I live in another country it was too expensive for me to ship back to them. Just managed to get a local harpmaker to remedy, which was cheaper for me. Sigh.

[deb-l]

Rebecca, just wondering how your enjoying your Chicago CG straight?

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