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I think that stand had already been discontinued by the time I was first looking for a harp in the late 1970s, because I initially tried to order a 30, during the time when the wait was almost six years. But the stand wasn’t available by then.
I know there was a price list/brochure in the early or mid-seventies that showed the 30 with the stand and the infamous bucket bench, but I no longer have it.
Hey, Tony, do you have iOS4 installed? I installed the istrobosoft update after that, but the display doesn’t strobe anymore for me, although I can see the numerical readout of how far out the string is. Is it working for you?
Bill, I see you’re in Broward. I don’t know if UM has old issues of the Harp Journal and the Harp News in their library, but you might check. Possibly there would be a picture in an old L&H ad in the issues from the 60s and early 70s. (I know FSU has them, but that’s not exactly convenient.)
If you belong to the harp chapter down there, there might also be someone who kept those old L&H brochures, if you ask around.
> I remember hearing a recording executive a couple of years ago say that there isn’t an orchestra in the world that can put out a recording of a Tchaikowsky symphony and sell more than 10,000 recordings worldwide.
While I hate to say it, I would say that 10,000 recordings is probably a pretty darned respectable number for ANY classical recording these days, Carl.
You won’t get more respect from the client, you’ll get less (can’t be all that hard, can it–she doesn’t even need a break like the band does, so obviously she scammed us on the price).
Besides, you’re shortening your career by setting yourself up for repetitive stress injury.
I totally understand not wanting to take them–I’d rather be playing, too, than searching for a place to lurk while I’m not. But if you want to still be doing this in fifteen or twenty years, you need to respect your body. It’s already telling you that what you’re doing is stressing it. Take the breaks.
I don’t know how the economy is in Canada, but for sure in the US there’s never been a better time to buy a used harp. It might be worth checking to see what’s out there. You could get a top of the line instrument within your budget, with a little luck.
Yes, they’re pretty much all quite doable. Only a couple have tricky lever passages, but it’s been so long since I did them that I don’t remember which ones.
Yes, they’re pretty much all quite doable. Only a couple have tricky lever passages, but it’s been so long since I did them that I don’t remember which ones.
Yes, they’re pretty much all quite doable. Only a couple have tricky lever passages, but it’s been so long since I did them that I don’t remember which ones.
