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Regarding the problem of finding the notes–I played fretless banjo with no trouble because I already played guitar and your ear tells you when a note is off.
However, other issues (the caterwauling on a high-pitched instrument, the bowing) present additional problems.
Notice that quite a few folks like the cello. So do I (most guitarists like it).
Nothing. I’ve had medical issues for the last two months. So have my senior-citizen cat and dog. (Yeah, I’m a senior citizen too.)
However, my daughter and an “adopted daughter” got me a rocker for the front porch because I said I wanted to play banjo in a rocking chair like Aunt Samantha Bumgarner. So I may at least try that.
Ideally, I’d go for both, a small pedal harp and a lever harp. The pedal harp might be a single-action.
That’s the position my then 3-year-old daughter chose to assume when we first brought a harp into the house!
I bought a cheap ($5) but sturdy lyreback chair when the old St. John Hotel ended its run. It was just a little bit low for playing harp. (Harp 63″, me 60″.) Then I found a brilliantly colored fat Burmese pillow that did the trick.
