Weird question

[HBrock25]

Hi everyone, I’m new here. I received my first real harp yesterday. A L&H Troubador.. it’s beautiful I love it!!

Anyway, here’s my question.

Is there any special way I should be carrying/moving my harp? When I am not playing it, I keep the dust cover on it and have it tucked away in a corner safe and sound. However, when it’s time to play, I grab it by the column and one of the soundbox holes and shimmy it out from the corner. Is this no good? Is there a better way to move my harp around?

It’s too heavy… I’m so happy I didn’t get a Prelude.

[Liam M]

It only weighs about 40 lb. or so?

[Samantha E.]

It does, but my room is carpeted so I can’t slide it around. I have to pick it up and carry it, and I want to know the “right” way to carry it.

[renate-kvalsvik]

That’s how I carry mine, too. I think this is a fine way of carrying it, though I’ve never asked anyone about it. I can’t see any other way of carrying it that would be better..?

[tony-morosco]

How you are carrying it is fine. Just remember to wipe the areas you hold it by with a soft cloth when you are done to avoid a build up of oil and grime from your hands. Even if you wash your hands before you touch it you will be surprised to see that after a while you can clearly see where you regularly touch the harp.

But one hand in the sound hole and one on the column is how I have always moved my harps and I have never had any trouble.

[Audrey Nickel]

Just thought I’d chime in and add that this is exactly the method Laurie Riley recommends in her “The Harper’s Handbook” for carrying a harp that is too big to be picked up by the pillar (which is going to be most harps other than lap harps).

[Zen Sojourner]

40 lbs is way too heavy for me.

[V. B.]

I carry it the same way too.

[Saul Davis Zlatkovski]

You need to lift weights to play any harp, it seems! By shimmy, I hope you mean walking it from foot to foot. You don’t need to keep it covered except maybe when moving it.

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