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I have a Camac Bardic 27 and I’m loving it. It’s great for busking. I bought it with its travel case which you can actually wear as a backpack. The harp is about 6kgs so it does get a little heavy to carry after a while. The range is a little limited when you are used to bigger harps but you can play many tunes with it nonetheless. They can also make straps to go with the harp so you don’t have to play it sitting down (I’ve never tried it but I’d be scared to hurt my back if I played that way for too long!). It has removable legs. If you like the low register of the harp this particular harp doesn’t go very low (lowest string is C one octave below middle C). But it’s quite portable and if you have a pick-up you can easily amplify it. 🙂
Hi! You sound like a lovely person, and wow – creative writing! Apart from harping, we have something else in common! (Not that I’m studying it, but I love to write). I don’t come on these forums too often, but it’s always nice to see new members 🙂 I own a concert pedal harp (Camac Atlantic Prestige) … technically, my parents bought it for me so that I could study music at university. I’m in the process of selecting a lever harp to go busking with! So that’s my harp self in a nutshell!!! And lastly, welcome to the Harpcolumn community!!
Bach-Grandjany Etude 3 … Just learnt this recently. It’s slow but emotionally very powerful, and has some lovely big chords!
When I feel very lazy I sometimes cross my legs … until I have to change a pedal 😛 This video is so random!
I’ll go there next time I return to France!!! I went to the Camac harp shop, which is located near the Conservatoire … That is also a great shop, they have a lot of harps 🙂
Hi everyone, thank you all for your responses. I ended up charging what I usually charge for lessons and it took me about 3 hours as there were over 10 strings that needed replacement! Phew! She just left me in the harp room to replace all the strings as she had guests over so I couldn’t supervise her or teach her how to replace strings. Thanks for your guidance everyone!
Dear Deb,
thanks for writing this post. It is good to hear some “good cancer news”. My younger sister is currently undergoing intensive chemotherapy against leukaemia. She had tests done a couple of weeks ago to see if she would need a bone marrow transplant, and this week we learnt she didn’t have to get one. That was the best news this week! I have heard that transplants have a slim chance of success, so I am so happy for you, your husband, and your family, that it was successful. Even though my sister’s treatment should go for another long two years, hearing good news like this gives me hope, so thank you.
And also, bravo. For keeping it together during the fight. It takes courage and strength.
Again, thanks for posting this, it brightened my day!Hi,
I am just finishing off my first year at university and I’m doing a double major. My first major is music and my second one is neuroscience.
The reason I picked this combination is … well, the only thing I knew I wanted to do at uni was music, but my parents wanted me to do something on the side, as a ‘safety net’, and as I’m interested in music therapy, neuroscience sounded like a good idea. At my university, since music is my first major, I get my harp tuition for free.
In terms of workload, this year was not too bad. This semester was hectic as I agreed to do chamber music, which was very demanding. But I don’t regret taking music. The things I have learnt, music-theory wise, and harp-related wise, have been really helpful.
I actually quite enjoyed having a non-music unit on the side. It was good because I felt like I was learning something completely different, and it stimulated my interest in a field other than music. It was also great in the sense that when I wanted a break from music, I had something else to focus on.
If I were you, I would probably go for the option of doing a double major. I mean, why not? You get to do music, and learn something else at the same time. If you are not sure about what you want to do, it is best to keep all doors open. Maybe after one year of doing a double major, you’ll realise you’ll want to do just music, or just English/foreign languages with music as a hobby or something.
I hope that helped a little 🙂Hey Marco!
It’s nice to meet you! I am new to this forum too.
I haven’t heard of Andreas Vollenweider, but having nails on one hand does sound a little funky to me … do you have any recordings of the music you have written? It would be nice to hear some of your compositions, especially if you play them on an eletro-acoustic harp!
Around this time last year my parents and I began looking into which harp to get me for university studies (before I was renting my high school’s harp). We weren’t sure if we should get an electro-acoustic harp or just an acoustic one. The benefit of having a harp that can be amplified is, well, when you play at events like weddings, it’s nice to be amplified, especially when it’s outdoors! In the end we stuck to a fully acoustic harp, and use a microphone to amplify it, if needed. I also have a Camac! (Atlantide Prestige).
Well, since you introduced yourself I might as well introduce myself briefly. I’m a harpist from Australia, I started playing harp in 2008 after winning a music scholarship for high school. Last year I graduated from high school and decided to keep studying music at uni. Although my favourite instrument is piano, I decided to study the harp because then the uni covered my lesson fees … but it has been a very challenging year so far and I’m looking forward to learning more interesting repertoire. I love to perform, but I’m very very very interested in music therapy (in particular harp therapy), and I’m hoping to do a course on it later …So yeah, that’s harpist-me in a nutshell!
Eliza
