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Yes, I have absolutely used them as I had crazy performance anxiety, really out there stuff. I’ve worked with the anxiety and it is definitely under control now, but for extremely high pressure situations I still take them as insurance 😉 For a number of reasons I only recommend them for hard-core cases of performance anxiety, and only if your doctor agrees, of course. I use a lot of sports psychology in my teaching and performing and in general find sports psychologists are really against BBs but you know, they aren’t playing a harp and laying their soul bare, so there you go!
Interesting thread! I’m a huge devotee of fluorocarbon strings and have them on both my Cithara Nova 34 string harps plus my David Kortier electric harp (except the bottom octave is wire on the latter.)
I find the tone gorgeous, dynamic range wide, and love that fluorocarbon hardly reacts to temperature or humidity. I’ve flown my harps across the world multiple times to find them less than a quarter tone out of tune upon arrival. Perhaps something that makes fluorocarbon better for me is I set low tension. Pedal harp tension could be another matter altogether, and I have no experience with that regarding fluorocarbon strings.
Also, to obliquely refer to an earlier comment, I play Salzedo technique on my hybrid Renaissance/Paraguayan and find it works great 😉
Actually, I have had someone trip over my harp and fall flat on their face, so it’s not such an outlandish request, even though it’s unusual.
I generally just get a 1-day vendor liability policy for $50 through:
Dominique Capper
DHC Insurance, LLC.
P.O. Box 948
Warrenville, IL. 60555
(888) 288-1829
FAX (630) 393-5666
http://www.dhcins.comI’ve done it maybe 4 times in my career, so it’s still more cost-effective than getting yearly coverage unless you are going to be hired on an ongoing basis by the venue.
