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Maple is bright, walnut is mellow, and cherry falls in between. Cherry also deepens to a beautiful color.
I vote for Harp 2. It goes down to 2 octaves below middle C and it has more and better sharping levers.
Just a wild guess–the creator of Camac [Joel (?)] harps claimed to have been influenced by the old Erards. While I wouldn’t expect that to produce a brighter sound, who knows? It did result in a lighter-weight harp and one that was easier to play in the highest half-octave.
I agree, but as for one’s parents–it isn’t that they don’t value music; they just worry about your being able to make a living.
Pilgrim Harps make a tiny pedal harp, the Progress, just 41 strings and a smidgin under 5 feet tall, that’s really pretty good. Worth considering if one becomes available.
It was fun. There’s more than you imagined to putting music to a film. Lots of examples. What I knew instinctively but never put into words: some of the finest and most precise words-to-music relationships to be found in Tom and Jerry cartoons. Also one of the most amusing scenes in SINGING IN THE RAIN where the actress who has a hopeless voice has to attempt to match her face to the dubbed competent singer: I saw that when it first came out and my father remarked, “Eine Stimme wie eine rostige Gieskanne” (a voice like a rusty watering can).
I have a 200+-year-old Erard (single-action ram’s-head), not in playing order, but just looking at it every morning inspires me.
Nothing. Since you asked, that may give me the necessary kick in the pants. I am working on something, but on banjo.
