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Though Harpo grew up in Yorkville on the Upper East Side, not Brooklyn, and there are several conflicting stories about his relationship with his grandma’s harp–nonetheless, thanks for the article!
Some observations of Groucho, not necessarily accurate, on Grandma’s harp: a “few flakes of golden dandruff” still stuck to it. Chico filched it and took it to the local hock shop. “Harpo was inconsolable. Without his beloved harp, the world was just an empty planet.” The harp was subsequently rescued from hock.
Let’s hope that they don’t now proceed to badmouth you for “backing out.” Not justified, but people like this are perfectly capable of it.
You could use enharmonics in tuning; for example, D# for Eb. That means engaging the D’s lever. For all I know, that may be harmful too.
It sounds as if Josie is UK-based, though, and she’d have to pay to have the harp shipped from the U.S. What about a used Pilgrim Progress–the nonpedal version? 30 lbs.
Try Corn Husker’s Lotion, if it’s still around. Heavy-duty lotion, mostly glycerine, takes a while to sink in.
Aquila nylgut. It’s a sort of gut substitute. What is hear is, the strings take forever to stretch out, but then they sound pretty good. This is mostly with reference to banjo or guitar, but they’re available for harp as well.
Not to mention it has a good range–low C to high G–same as my old Troubadour. That’s pretty amazing for its small size!
Sure can’t recommend my car–it’s a VW Beetle. But in your situation, if I could afford it, I would keep a roomy gas-guzzler JUST for the purpose of transporting my Salzedo or whatever and use something more compact and less gasoholic for all other purposes. That might turn you into a 3-car family, but I think the savings could be significant.
I have a book of mostly vihuela tablatures transcribed into standard notation–not that you can’t read directly off tablature for guitar, you can–and one harp transcription, which is however not a transcription from some other instrument but from a harp tablature. Pujol.
I’m looking around myself. Anything would be an improvement over the string-chewing levers I have on my antiquated Troubadour–but if I find something, and it has Loveland rather than Camac or Truitt, what is the practical difference between the long-handled and short-handled Lovelands? For instance, if you’re really short and don’t have much of a reach? Does the R Harps Merlin come with long-handled or short-handled Lovelands?
