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I have a custom stand by misterstandman. Pretty much everything he makes is custom and I am very pleased with mine. Even if you can’t find a picture, if you can describe it and find something similar on his site he will work with you and make what you want.
Good luck!
Dusty Strings makes an adjustable wrench, it’s like a tap wrench with a wooden handle.
Now that I have one of those, I can get rid of the two other odd size wrenches I have and know the one wrench I carry will fit any peg, period.
It’s at the bottom of this page:
I would not ever trust a harp to any airline without an ATA quality road case. With a properly made road case you can check or ship your harp relatively worry-free.
You simply cannot pack any musical instrument well enough on your own. You have no idea what baggage handlers are capable of. Baggage checked at the gate is just tossed into the hold, it doesn’t fare
Nice to see that I’m not the only one. I opted for Truitt levers on a small portable harp and was very suprised to find that I really don’t like them.
In retrospect I would be much happier with the functionality of the Camacs. The Truitts look nice, but they move the strings out a little and they feel faintly gritty when you move them.
All the premium levers are comparable in price. I really think you should make an effort to see and use the levers you’re considerting before you make a choice. I wish I had.
Good luck, Nat.
I have bought all the method books and started trying to teach myself. I’m an intelligent person with a musical background and figured it couldn’t be that hard….
It was pretty frustrating and not very productive. 6 months later I found a good teacher and I got more out of my first lesson (which was about 2 hours long) than I got out of 4 different method book series. If you want to buy some barely-use method books, let me know
I’m not you of course, but if you find you’re not getting anywhere with the self-taught material, make the effort to
I operate, adjust, maintain and repair telecommunications switching and transport equipment.
When you dial a phone number and the call reaches the right person, I’ve done my job.
I seem to be in the minority here, most of you who’ve replied are in jobs that are people-oriented while I work almost entirely with machines. I do prefer the machines though..
I use the slider on the side to set gain to ‘high’, and I use the 90 degree front microphones. There is a button on top front that switches between the microphones. the active ones will have the red LED lit on that side.
Best if the recorder is about 5′ away and on a low table or chair seat. I have changed other settings too, but none gave any significant improvement. If you want a smaller file size or a different format, you can do that too.
Hi Anna.
I wrote about my situation and the humidifiers I use here:
http://www.harpcolumn.com/forum/message-view?message%5fid=8252723
There is also information on that thread from Howard Bryan and Carl Swanson.
Chris
The only reason I piped up is because I have personal experience with both the Camac and Truitt levers. I personally *really* regret my choice of the Truitt levers on my smaller travel harp. I explained the reason for this, and wanted the OP to carefully consider both choices.
My opinion is mine only, but if I can let someone know what I find annoying, they can look for those things and see whether or not it matters as much to them. The levers pushing the strings out of alignment with the others is particularly annoying, and might be more apparent on a smaller instrument.
No doubt the Truitts are prettier, and look less obtrusive. I don’t have either of the harps Nat is considering unfortunately. The small harp is already topheavy, a few ounces either way won’t make much difference.
Michaela, I have actually been able to get the problem lever almost right by moving the bridge pin, thanks to Dwight Blevins who was kind enough to walk me through the process. there is precious little adjustment on the lever though, the screw slots really should be longer.
I didn’t mean to start a war over the lever types, just to communicate my experience and hope it helps someone else make the best choice.
Chris
I am fairly new to the harp, and have two new instruments. The first is a Webster with Camac levers. It has remarkably big, rich sound. the levers work flawlessly, operate smoothly and have required no adjustment of any sort in the year I’ve had the harp. There is no difference in the location of the string or it’s sound when a lever is engaged.
When I decided to buy a smaller Blevins harp for travel and portable pracice, I decided to get Truitt levers (I had the option of any lever type I wanted) and I regret the decision. They are very pretty levers and their appearence is well suited to the smaller, more delicate harp. They are nowhere near as nice as the Camac levers in operation. They move the strings well out of alignment, and they operate with a faintly gritty feel. Their shaped heads are much harder to locate on the fly than the colored rings on the Camac. They lack the Camac’s positive feel too, they have to be moved up until they stop and you can’t casually ‘flick’ them on and off.
Both lever types are very expensive,
