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Any kind of carpet swallows up some of the sound. OTOH a clay tile floor makes the harp reverberate like mad.
33 strings suits me well enough–it’s what I have now. But I prefer a floor harp, so might be more inclined to the larger model.
Thank you on behalf of the harp! (I have the same ebony Troubadour, albeit without the snazzy gold Loveland levers. No, alas, I have the cantankerous original levers.) I love this video too, and I also play “She Moved Through the Fair.”
I’m playing mainly from the Sylvia Woods book too, but just using the chord symbols for the bass rather than version I or version II. In the past I’ve also used a mixture of I and II.
I think you should hold out for the Prelude, unless you think you will fall out of love with it (“whatever that may be at the time”).
John Kovac plays a Paraguayan harp. You’ll also notice he plays way high up on the strings. Cecile Corbel plays Celtic harp. People who play folk harp have a range of different techniques. I can only describe Loreena McKennitt’s technique as odd. It looks almost like the way wire-harp players play.
So don’t let it worry you. You can go on playing a more orthodox (pedal harp) style if you so choose.
The technique isn’t necessarily the same for small harps. Depends on whether the harp is closer to a pedal harp or more of a folk harp.
