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Maybe I’ll change my mind about the Ravenna when I come to playing one.
And, Tayce, the Pilgrims are on my list to try out.
Many thanks to you both for your comments.
Many thanks, Tacye. I’d seen the Ossian, drooled, but resisted as I don’t intend to buy for at least a year.
I don’t play the wire harp, mainly for the reason, that, like you, I can’t bear long nails because they set my teeth on edge if they’re beyond the tips of my fingers and they anyway interfere with piano and (for me) guitar playing.
Biagio, many thanks; your comments are very helpful in directing my search. I think I’m looking for some good resonance without the concert harp sound of the Eos.
Allison, also many thanks; we’ve already been to the EIHF this year. I have to say that I’m not keen on the sound of the Ravenna, at least, those played on youtube and much preferred the student Kerry 34 when I played it.
If price were no consideration, I’d probably go for Tim Hampden’s Ossian Clarsach.
Still, it’ll all come down to trying out quite a few when I come to upgrade.
“Anyway, that was rather a shock. Has anyone else experienced it?”
Yes. I have astigmatism in both eyes. so with anything close and at a slant I get a weird vision thing that distorts the strings’ placement so much it throws my fingering off in the upmost octave; I’m not sure it’s double vision, though.
I’m compensating by learning how to play by feel in the top octave and that’ll probably help with lower octave work, too.
