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There’s a little more info here, and a pic or two without the Photoshop Starburst filter:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150231380231765.317873.174811606764&type=3
EDIT They said it would be available for purchase but somehow it doesn’t seem to have made it to market. 🙂
There’s a typo in Sid’s link. Try http://www.folkharp.com.
>Then again, maybe harps aren’t loud enough to gain much attention in a downtown area?
If it’s a problem, you could try a small battery operated amp, like one of the Roland cubes. But try it first without–the less you have to lug, the better.
Before doing that I would unwind the string, pull it up and see if you still have the problem. There are an awful lot of winds on the tuning pins, and that may be affecting how the string is seating in the groove on the pin. Can’t really tell from the photo.
Wouldn’t it be easier just to get a bench that goes higher, Sylvia? There are many different brands of these available and lots of them go as high as 26″ inches.
Why not just invest in an adjustable folding keyboard bench? The smaller ones aren’t heavy to lug around and they go high enough for most pedal harps, so they should certainly be tall enough for a Heartland. If you need to move it a lot, be sure to get one with a quick release button to make folding easier.
We have both high humidity and plenty of salt in the air on the coast in SE FL. It’s not great for gilding unless you use air conditioning, but I’ve never had, nor heard of anyone having, any of the problems Patricia describes, not even the harpists down in the islands.
As a matter of fact, my current pedal harp had spent all its life, from 1978 till the mid 2000s, in an oceanfront house that was only used about 2 months a year and was shut up with no A/C or anything the rest of the time. It was like a new harp, except for the gold and of course the finish on the action plates looks like that on any L&H that old, but most of the problems with the gold were from other causes. Perhaps in equatorial Africa or something….
And I’ve never heard a touring harpist here complain that the harps all sound weird.
The orchestra light puts out a lot more total light than the double, I think, although I haven’t seen the latest version of the double, to be fair. In a dark room, the orchestra is pretty much like playing in a pit where your stand light is the only light you have, just a different quality of light.
Kay, the orchestra light is a specific model with a bar of several LEDs, this one:
http://www.mightybright.com/Music-Lights/LED-Orchestra-Light/
I would at least go for the double if you want the small light.
EDIT I would go with the Hammerhead or Encore model if price is a concern (otherwise, there’s really no difference in bulk, if that’s what you were considering–they all have that long neck to deal with, so packing them up is going to take about the same amount of space).
If you can afford it, you will get the best results from your regulation with a set of nice new strings, although I realize that’s a pretty big investment for a lot of people. But you will be amazed at how much better your harp sounds, if you can justify the expense. It will also help your ear to develop more quickly when the strings are true and in tune.
If you do decide to go for it, do it now so that they can settle in before the regulator gets there. Some regulators will put on new wires if you have them there ready as part of the regulation. (Those don’t need so long to settle down. Nylon needs the longest time, then gut, then wires.)
I’ve played in a lot of Catholic churches with a lot of different rules, but in my lifetime I’ve never encountered one that didn’t allow the traditional wedding marches. Are you saying that your diocese has this as a rule? It was the case back in the 1930s and Emily Post or someone kept reiterating it long after it stopped being true, so I’d be curious to know if any church has suddenly dug this up again.
ifranview is kind of the swiss army knife program for Windows. It can read almost any obscure file format and often will open damaged files when other programs can’t read them anymore. It’s a little utility that everyone who uses Windows ought to have, IMHO.
Yes, for music reading 16 GB is plenty. Now if you wanted to get into major field recording of entire concerts, probably not, but otherwise you’ll be fine.
As far as data plan or not, there’s a third option, which is to get some kind of a mifi, which is a credit card sized device that lets you set up your own wifi hotspot wherever you are. Most of them are tied to contracts so they’re not as good as just getting a data plan, but there are some, like the True Connect, where you have to pay for the mifi itself, but then you can pay as little as $5 a month, only in the months when you use it, and also use it with your computer if you like. The disadvantage is that if you use it a lot it gets expensive pretty fast (beyond a simple email check the per Mb charge is quite high), and the reliability is variable. I used to have the one from Virgin and there were places where it was infinitely faster than the hotel wifi and places where I couldn’t get online with it at all.
