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Hello everyone! I just wanted to give you an update. I went to the Virginia Harp Center yesterday to look at the used style 100 pedal harp and ended up buying a brand new ebony camac Excalibur lever harp instead! It is beautiful and a perfect size for me. They just got a huge shipment of brand new Camac harps from France on Friday and I’m lucky to have scooped up a harp that was not spoken for! Thank you everyone for your advice!
Do you think it is worth getting a LH 100 rebuilt in the 1990s? Have the new models changed considerably? Thanks!
I agree the harp should come with at least a dust cover. It is impossible to get harp cart lately too! I see Virginia harp center has a new natural camac egerie ex in stock for $19k and the Athena is on hold. I’m not familiar with Camac. How do you get them regulated or repaired?
Thanks!
I didn’t realize you could negotiate on a used harp at the Virginia Harp Center. Do you think $12k is a good price? It does not include a cover or harp dolly. I’ve always really liked the sound of old harps but I don’t live anywhere near Chicago so it would be hard to get an old harp repaired. Thank you!
Thank you for your advice Gretchen and Balfour! After the seller said the restring was October 2021, I looked back in my messages from August 2021 when I initially contacted her and she said it had been recently restrung then as well. I don’t really trust the seller at this point (and it sounds like it is overpriced anyway).
So I took Balfour’s advice and looked at Virginia harp center’s website and they have a used Style 100 that I am interested in. That was the model I played in college and I loved it back then! This was built in 1968 but totally rebuilt by Lyon and Healy in 1996. It has been restrung, regulated, and inspected. Any advice? Do I need to play it even though I played the same model for years?
Thanks!
Thank you for the suggestions! I spoke to the seller again and she says the regulation and complete restringing was October 2021. She says she was not given a report—-maybe I should ask for a receipt to prove it was done?
Do you think buying a used harp is too risky? I always heard a used harp has better sound and of course is less costly. I could go to Virginia Harp Center or Atlanta Harp Center in the SE here but their inventory has been low.
Any advice is appreciated 😀
Thank you for the suggestions! I spoke to the seller again and she says the regulation and complete restringing was October 2021. She says she was not given a report—-maybe I should ask for a receipt to prove it was done?
Do you think buying a used harp is too risky? I always heard a used harp has better sound and of course is less costly. I could go to Virginia Harp Center or Atlanta Harp Center in the SE here but their inventory has been low.
Any advice is appreciated 😀
